Partner Control (SAP Library

Partner Control

In the following menu options, you define the rules according to which automatic partner determination is to be carried out.

When creating a customer master record, the SAP System proposes the allowed functions to be maintained. According to the rules defined here, the partners are adopted from the customer master records of the sold-to parties into the sales and distribution documents.

You have to edit the following points for the function "Partner determination":

Partner function

You define with the help of the partner function which functions exist for the partners ( customers, vendors, employees, and so on) in your system.

Partners allowed for each account group

You allocate the permitted partner functions to every account group customer.

Function conversion

You can define the key of the partner functions according to the language.

Partner object

Partners are possible in the customer master record and the so-called partner objects in the distribution documents. Select a partner object and define the rules for partner determination for this object.

Partner determination procedures

You define partner determination procedures which contain all the allowed partner functions for every partner object.

Procedure allocation

You allocate each partner determination procedure to an actual partner object using a key, for example, to an account group customer or a sales document type.

Partners are contained both in the customer master records and in the sales and distribution documents. You define partner determination for each of these objects individually.

The following partner objects exist:

customer master record

sales document

header

item

delivery

header

billing document

header

item

sales activity

After defining the partner functions, select one partner object after the other and define the partner determination procedures for the selected object.

Only when you have checked and, if necessary, changed the partner determination for all the partner objects is the function "Partner determination" completed.

Note on tranport interface

In the transport, all objects maintained for partner determination are transported. In the correction which is created for the transport, you can check the table entries and delete the entries which are not to be transported.