Definition

The recipient is a central control element in ETM. In addition to standard views, there are two ETM views where ETM basic data and ETM settlement data for the recipient can be stored.

The term “recipient” is used as an umbrella term to cover a variety of roles in ETKM. You should not understand this term to mean merely a “recipient” in the conventional sense of the word. The recipient can be the ship-to party, but also the sender of equipment (since to be able to send the equipment, even the sender must have received the equipment, in other words, been the recipient of the equipment at some point in time).

Use

Either the sender or the Ship-To Party or the sender and the ship-to party must be entered in the Shipping Document . This, however, depends on whether you are dealing with an acquisition (only the recipient is entered and the sender field remains empty), a retirement (only the sender is entered and the recipient field remains empty), a change of activity type (the sender and the recipient are the same) or shipping (from one usage site to the next).

Integration

The customer master record has been enhanced by ETM-specific views. Control parameters such as recipient type and reference type define which type of recipient (recipient type) you are dealing with or which account assignment object is used in Settlement and postings to FI/CO (reference type). Which company code a recipient belongs to depends on which company code the appropriate account assignment object (for example, WBS element, project definition, cost center, CO order or PM order) has been created in.

For further information, see: Customer Master Data .