When to use and which Partner Type to use

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We have the following Partner profile types in SAP R/3 while dealing with the IDOC interfaces.

Partner Type B -

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Bank

Partner Type BP -

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Benifits Provider

Partner Type GP---Business Partner

Partner Type KU---Customer

Partner Type LI---Vendor

Partner Type LS---Logical system

Partner Type US--User

When we have to go for each of the mentioned above

Regards

Suman

[Former Member]

Hi Suman,

Partner Types are decided based on ,in what way you are sending data.

The Triggering Procedure which you are following is the Key in deciding Partner types.

For Example If any data is going through Specific Transactions like MM01,XD01,Etc..which need to be

created as type KU for Customer Applications, LI for Vendor Applications.

If we are sending data considering only Logical Systems then we need to Use Type LS.

Refer this link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/ae/c19dcc01e34815bc3fd86a005f5cc1/frameset.htm

Generaaly when we go for ALE we will take both the sending and receiving systems as LS.

But for EDI we go for vendor,customer like this.....

suppose i have 10 vendors and ineed to distribute the data to them then i can specify 10 vendors in WE20 and can send the data to them through EDI.

we distribute the material from SAP to SAP only,hence we go for ALE and hence we have to go for LS.

Create a Partner of Type LS (in case of ALE)

Create a Partner of Type LI, KU Etc (in case of EDI)

BestRegards,

Ramesh.

[vrkrishnaraju_mudunuri]

Partner Type B -

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Bank

Partner Type BP -

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Benifits Provider

Partner Type GP---Business Partner

Partner Type KU---Customer

Partner Type LI---Vendor

Partner Type LS---Logical system

Partner Type US--User

These Partner types depends on the business scenarios in which business sytem exists.

When we want to purchase some materials, we will raise a purchase order to the particular vendor.

This purchase Order should go to the paricular vendor as a sales order. Then we use partner tpe as LI -- Vendor.

Simillarly when we sell some materials to our customers, we create the Sales order to our cusomters. Then we use Partner type as KU -

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Customer

Likewise we use different parnter types depends on the business scenario to transfer the IDOC for EDI partners.

We use Logical system LS for ALE distribution systems.

The difference between ALE and EDI is:

The philosophical difference between EDI and ALE can be

pinned as follows: If we send data to an external partner,

we generally speak of EDI, while ALE is a mechanism to

reliable replicate data between trusting systems to store a

redundant copy of the IDoc data. The difference is made

clear, when we think of a purchase order that is sent as an

IDoc. If we send the purchase order to a supplier then the

supplier will store the purchase order as a sales order.

However, if we send the purchase order via ALE to another

R/3 system, then the receiving system will store the

purchase order also as a purchase order.

I hope you understand when to use LS and when to use other partner types.

Regards,

Krishnaraju.

[Former Member]

hi,

Do you know how I can use a partner type which the values are the list of the countries?

I would like to create a partner function that would be "Country of execution" in the sales order that have the countries as possible values.

Thanks.