Departure country from Supplier for Third party sales

[ShirleyMaeC]

Hi,

I have a business requirement in a third party sales flow where physically the goods are shipped from Supplier directly to the customer. We would like to determine the tax based on the supplier's country as the departure country rather than the Plant when billing document is created. Is there a configuration that will handle this ? 

thanks in advance.

Br,

ShirleymaeC

[Lakshmipathi]

One option is to create a virtual plant in SAP with the supplier’s country as its location. Assign this plant to third-party items so SAP picks up the correct departure country. This is a workaround but can be effective if you have a limited number of suppliers; else, the other option is to go with custom validation via BAdI SD_TAX_DETERMINE to override the departure country during billing.