Account Group 02 (Goods Recipient)

[Former Member]

Dear EHS Experts,

As per my understanding with my reading about EHS relating to MSDS, there is a need to create a customer master data using account group 02 (goods recipient). Is this correct or there is another option wherein no need to create for a new customer using the said account group? Thank you in advance for sharing you ideas.

Kind regards,

Mark

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI Mark,

It's not necessary to be Account group -02 for EHS - MSDS purpose.

this Account group is purely for Accounting and billing purpose.

Ensure that in your customer master, under sales area data.......in the tab - partner functions, "SR - Material Safety Sheet REC" must be available.

without this parthner funciton, MSDS will not be triggered.

If you take it towards functional view -

There is no meaning of sending the MSDS to the Account group "0001", which is sold-to-party. and same time it is necessary to send it to the "0002"- ship-to-party, where the material usage happens physically.

some cases, sold-to-party and ship-to-party will be same if they have purchasing and manufacturing setup at same location.

some  cases it differs, where there is a seperate registered office maintains centrally to deal with these purchasing operations and payments. multiple manufacturing plants linked to this central purchasing.

Regards

kamal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Kamal,

Thanks for the information you provided. I just ensure that partner function SR will appear in my Ship to party then.

Kind regards,

Mark

[dhinsap]

Dear Mark,

In addition to remarks by kamal, Creating a customer is purely a Sales and Distribution process. Whenever the product is being planned to ship to a customer, the customer master data has to be setup. It is usually created using the transaction XD01 as the ship to party. Sometimes , both the ship to party and Sold to party may be the same depending on the business requirements.This will be setup by the SD team. You can setup the communication method for the customer. Ideally, when you are creating a delivery to the ship to party , the report shipping process is triggered automatically in the system for the MSDS.

Regards

Dhinesh

[Former Member]

Dear Kamal and Dhinesh,

Thank you so much for your inputs. I just realised account group 0002 is the standard group (Goods Recipient) being copied to create a ship to account group.

Kind regards,

Mark

[dhinsap]

Dear Mark,

If u need further help, get help from your SD team who will better manage your needs. You can also create a customer using the transaction XD01, maintain the address and the Sales area data. A pricing procedure must be in place. If you r working on a trial basis, ignore it and just maintain the mandatory pricing condition which is PR00. Maintain also an info record for the material you wish to ship with the MSDS to the customer. With this the process is complete. Mark points if it is helpful.\

Regards

Dhinesh