Report Recipient 
Definition
The recipient of a
ready-to-ship
report.
· Manual report shipping
You enter the report recipient directly when you ship a report. The following kinds of address management are supported:
¡ Address management in the SAP component Sales and Distribution (SD)
¡ Address management in the SAP user administration
¡ Address management in the SAP component Product Safety
· Automatic report shipping
Shipping of material safety data sheets (MSDS) is currently implemented for MSDS recipients. For automatic report shipping you can use address management in the SAP component Sales and Distribution.
The SAP system selects the respective MSDS recipient using partner determination. The languages in which the report must be shipped are also linked to the recipient country.
You must differentiate between the report recipient and the ship-to-party.
See also:
Editing the Addresses of Report Recipients
Editing the Internet Address of a Customer
Structure
The following structure forms the basis for selecting the MSDS recipient for triggering automatic shipping.
· Partner function SR
In general, SAP differentiates between various types of business partners that participate in a business transaction in sales and distribution processing. The SAP system uses partner functions to differentiate between business partners (for example, customers, vendors, forwarding agents). These partner functions are grouped together using partner determination procedures and are assigned to the corresponding business partners via an account group. The obligatory partner function Safety Data Sheet Receiver (SR) exists for the MSDS recipient.
· Partner determination procedure WESR
For report shipping, the partner determination procedure ship-to party material safety data sheet recipient (WESR) has been set up. In the standard system, the partner determination procedure WESR contains the obligatory partner functions MSDS recipient (SR) and ship-to party (WE). The ship-to party is generally also the MSDS recipient. This means that both partner functions with identical addresses are assigned as standard to a business partner that belongs to a particular account group.
As it is possible that the recipient of a report is not always the ship-to party, the SAP system allows you to enter a different address for the MSDS recipient or to specify a number of MSDS recipients.
· Contact person
You can define a number of contact persons for one MSDS recipient. If you have also assigned the function of contact person for material safety data sheets to a contact person, this contact person and not the higher-level business partner receives the relevant material safety data sheets from the SAP system.
You can use the environment parameter SRE_DS_SDSREC to set up the MSDS contact person function. For more information, see Specify Environment Parameters in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Basic Data and Tools.