Determining the Business Partner for Documents

An application can automatically determine the business partner, as well as the contract account and company code for documents (such as, scanned customer correspondence). This is made possible, for example, through integration with the software of a third-party provider. In certain cases, this software may be unable to automatically determine the business partner, contract, and company code (or you have not yet entered this data). In such cases, you can select the documents and either enter the data yourself or specify that the documents are not able to be identified. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Management of Documents Next navigation step Assign Business Partner End of the navigation path .

Example

A tax office scans in the tax returns of the taxpayers. The appropriate software automatically determines the business partner to be assigned to each tax return.

For some tax returns, the business partner is so difficult to read that the software is not able to determine the business partner. In these cases, someone has to do the follow-up processing manually. Using the Determine Business Partner transaction, this person can select the correspondence involved and try to determine the business partner by displaying the image.