Attributes and Rules Used in Partner Determination (SAP Library

Attributes and Rules Used in Partner Determination

Organizational attributes are characteristics that help define organizational units. You assign them to units in the organizational model. They define, for example, whether a unit is active in sales or service, or for which distribution channel or product group it is responsible.

Organizational determination rules find organizational data in transaction processing by evaluating attributes in the organizational model and information in the transaction.

You can use these rules to determine partners from the organizational model. You must specify a determination rule whenever you enter the source Organizational Data in an access sequence. The following rules are used frequently in partner determination.

Rule	Name	What It Does	What It Evaluates
Partner_1	Employees for responsible organizational unit	Finds the employees assigned to the responsible organizational unit	Responsible organizational unit in transaction, and attribute SA_RESPORG in organizational model
Partner_2	Responsibility according to sales office and district	Finds the responsible organizational unit	Sales office and district of main partner in transaction, SA_ORG and DISTRICT in model
Partner_3	Responsibility According to Product Group and District	Finds the responsible organizational unit	Sales office and district of main partner in transaction, PRODGRP and DISTRICT in model
Partner_4	Organizational Unit Determined from Partner Attribute (Postal Code)	Finds the responsible organizational unit	Postal code of main partner in transaction, POSTCODE_1 in model
Partner_5	Organizational Unit Employee	Finds the employees assigned to the responsible unit	Responsible organizational unit in the transaction, PARTNER in the model

For more information on organizational determination rules and attributes, see General Attribute Maintenence and Determining Organizational Data.