Third-party with freight forwarding partner

[Kaitlin]

Hello.

I would like to be able to use the third-party sales process where my supplier sends the goods to one of my partners first, a freight forwarding company, and only from there the goods are transported to my end-customer.

Is there a clever way to end up having in the PO both my freight forwarder(I maintain this information in the sales order) and my ShipTo address so that I can print both addresses in my PO output?

I do have partner tab in the PO but haven't seen any in the purchase requisition so I'm not sure if we have some sort of copy-control here...

Thank you.

[former_member842102 · Accepted solution]

A Simple approach: If the Supppier always ships through a particular freight forwarder, you can maintain the partner "GS" or "FA" in the vendor master. Make this partner required always and make settings so it cannot be changed in the PO. Once the partner is adopted In the PO, the addresses can be fetched in the PO form from the master data.

[Kaitlin · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your suggestion.

I added another GS partner and selected it manually when I created the PO. Due to that on the output I have now 3 addresses although the labels of the address boxes may need small adjustments - this looks very promising but ultimately business will decide .

I'll keep you posted.

[Former Member]

Hi!

If you already have this in your conditions in the PO, then it is just a matter to ask your ABAP to map this info at your smartform to be displayed on your output!

Rgds,

Marcio

[Kaitlin]

Thank you for your reply but I don't have this additional partner info in my PO, that's why I ask if inheriting it from SO is possible.

Thank you.

[JL23]

It is not possible to bring a second partner into the PO, only the ship-to partner is carried over from SD sales order  to MM purchase order, and can be found in the delivery address tab of the PO item.

But this PO has a link to the sales order,  and your ABAPer should be able to hop from the PO to the sales order and find the relevant information in the sales order itself to print it on the PO form.

[Kaitlin]

Thank you for your reply.

I prefer to keep ABAP/programming as the last resort and explore all configuration options first as this might be something I hopefully can bring to production faster.