Partner Determination

[Former Member]

HI SD Gurus,

Can anyone please tell me the process involved in Partner determination, right from the beginning till the end. I want to create my SP, BP, SH & PY and it should reflect in XD01. Best description will be rewarded.

Thanks & Regards

Kaushik

[Former Member]

hi,

Partner determination procedure

It is the grouping of partner functions. It specifies which partner functions are allowed for a particular business transaction and which partner functions are mandatory

steps:

1.Path: SPRO IMG Sales & Distribution Basic functions Partner determination Setup partner determination setup partner determination for customer master.

You will get into u2018Change view partner determination procedure: overview screenu2019.

Select u2018new entriesu2019.

Enter the name for the partner procedure.

Select your partner procedure and double click on u2018partner functions in partner procedure tab.

Click on u2018new entriesu2019

Enter the partner functions to be included in the partner procedure.

ex: sp: sold to party

sh: ship to party

bp: bill to party

py: payer

Since we are assigning partner functions to the account group 001 i.e. for sold to party we keep u2018sold to partyu2019 as not modifiable and mandatory and other three as mandatory.

Partner Procedure To Account Group Assignment

Mention the Account Group( Group) as 0001 and the Partner Procedure(ParPr) you have created.

Press Enter

Partner Function To Account Group Assignment

An important requirement for proper sales order processing is that each customer can only include those functions relevant for him in a document. You can do this by assigning permitted partner functions to an account group.

Click on Position

Mention the Partner Function as SP and Account Group as 0001.

Press on the Continue Button

Click on position

Mention the Partner Function as SH and Account Group as 0001

Repeat the same procedure for BP and PY keeping Account Group as 0001

Click on Save

thanks,

krishna prasad

[Former Member]

Hi Krishna,

Read your replies toothers' queries. I was only wondering if ou could help me with mydoubt..as i have not received any replies as yet.

I need to know the access sequence that can be used to automatically determine business partner-Vendor for a given product.

I have created vendor as a BP. Have created relationship between Vendor and Product. Also partner function Vendor exists already.I need to assign an access sequence to partner function Vendor for determination of Vendor(BP) for a given product.

Could you guide me on the same please.

Thanks,

Vartika