Partner Determination Procedure (SAP Library - Partner Determination in Sales and Distribution (SD-BF-PD))

Partner Determination Procedure

Use

In the partner procedure you can determine whether partner functions can or should occur in a partner object (customer master, sales document, item category etc.).

For each object, in whixh partner functiions can be created, you can define partner procedures. That means

for the customer master
for sales documents
for sales documents and billing documents: for items

By assigning a procedure you determine for which account groups (for the customer master), which sales document types (for sales documents) and for which item categories this procedure is valid.

The following procedure shows, for example, the partner determination procedure functions for sales documents and for the customer masters.

Features

In the partner determination procedure you can determine for each partner function:

whether the partner function is an obligatory partner function
whether the partner function may be changed in the document

For sales documents and sales activities you can also enter in the partner procedure that the corresponding partner function should be occupied by another other than the sold-to party master record (source control).

Activities

In Customizing there are pre-defined partner procedures available, which contain frequently used partner functions with the necessary characteristics. These partner procedures can be modified if necessary or you can create new partner procedures.

You can find further information in the implementation guide (IMG) for sales and distribution under Basic functions ® Partner Determination ® Define and assign partner determination procedures.

Example

You can create a partner determination procedure for billling documents in which the sold-to party, bill-to party and the payer are obligatory but the ship-to party is not. (For billing it is more important to know who orders and pays for the goods rather than who receives them)