Customizing Settings Required for Vendor
Customizing settings are required on the vendor side so that the vendor's SD system can interpret and process the customer's data correctly.
Process
The Customizing settings comprise the following steps:
You determine the sales channel through which you would like to serve the customer. To do so, call transaction
VOE2
and define the required data.
ExampleBelow is an example of the data you could define for a customer.
Field
Value
Customer
234
Vendor Number
0000000789
Sales Organization
VK12
Distribution Channel
01
Division
0
Sales Document Type
TA (Standard Order)
End of the example.If the customer only transmits their internal number, you must determine which ship-to party number the system should use. To do so, execute transaction
VOE4
. The table could then contain the following entries:Data for Table: Sales - EDI Conversion Customer
External Function
External Partner
Internal Number
234
AG (Sold-To Party)
789
234
234
WE (Goods Recipient)
WK13
234
This table also determines which value the system writes in the
LIFNR
field of the IDoc file for this invoice.So that your system understands what your customer orders, you must define in the SAP system the number under which your customer stores your products. To do so, execute transaction
VD51
. For more information, see Master Data Enhancements.