config steps for one time customer

[Former Member]

hi,

sap gurus,

can i have the configuration steps for one time customer.

regards,

balaji

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

One-time customers

Customers who only enter into a business transaction with you once are called one-time customers in the R/3 System. It is not necessary for you to create a customer master record for individual one-time customers, since you no longer need this master record after the business transaction has been carried out, and it would use up storage space. You create collective master records for one-time customers.

Use

A collective master record refers to a dummy customer and includes only the data that is identical for a certain group of customers.

You create a collective master record for all customers in a certain region. This collective master record could include fields such as:

Master record name

Language

Currency

Sales office processing the customer data

If a one-time customer from this region orders goods from your company, you use the customer number of your collective master record when processing the sales order. Only in the sales order itself do you enter the address and all other data not given in the collective master record.

Structure

When you create a collective customer master record for a one-time customer, the account group CPD for one-time customers is automatically proposed by the system. This ensures that you can access screens from different partner functions (sold-to party, ship-to party, bill-to party, and payer) relevant for one-time customers. However, only fields that can be identical for all one-time customers are displayed. For example, all address fields are suppressed, since the master record is collective for data on several customers, all of whom can have different addresses.

On the following screens you can enter a limited amount of data in a collective master record for one-time customers:

Address

Sales

Shipping

Billing

Messages

Integration

The account group can restrict the number of screens accessed in the collective master record for one-time customers even further. If only some of the screens and fields for one-time customers are relevant for your company, change the account group CPD or set up a new account group. This is done in Customizing for Logistics Basic Data: Business Partners in the activity Define Account Groups and Field Selection for Customers.

regards

sadhu kishore

[Former Member]

Hi

The account group controls whether the customer is one time or not. Create an account group as onetime customer in transaction OVT0 (the onetime check box should be checked) . In customising define part determination procedure, assign partner functions to the procedure and assign the procedure to the account group.

Regards

Edited by: Srikkanth k on May 5, 2008 7:24 AM