In this section, you set up the partner determination facility.
In Purchasing, you have contact with various business partners (e.g. vendors or carriers).
For each account group, you can define which
roles the business partners may assume.
For example, you can specify that certain vendors may function as ordering
addresses only - not as invoicing parties.
You can use partner roles both within a corporate group and to define relationships between independent firms.
Examples:
- Within the vendor corporate group Steel Inc.,
the company code
South-East Steel Co in Orlando can have the role of ordering address
and plant 1000 in Atlanta the role of goods supplier.
- For the vendor Steel Inc., the carrier ABC
Co. - as sub-supplier -
can assume the role of goods deliverer.