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Assigning Addresses

You can assign an individual address to each installed base or installed base component. For example, an address can be a delivery address, location, or customer address.

Assigning Organizations and Parties Involved

You can assign one or more organizations and parties involved with various functions to each installed base or installed base component. These functions may include:

  • Sold-to party

  • Ship-to party

  • Contact person

  • Employee responsible

  • Service employee group

Inheriting Addresses, Organizations, and Parties Involved

If Customizing is set up appropriately, address data and data for parties/organizations involved is logically inherited from the installed base to the components. Inheritance and the number of hierarchy levels that are to be inherited are defined in Customizing.

Integration

Partner assignment or address assignment is used during the search for components to take partner inheritance and address inheritance into account.

For example, this means that in the Interaction Center or service processes, all components can be found using the business partner.

Prerequisite

You have made the approriate settings in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under   Master Data   Installed Base   Installed Base Category   Activate Partner and Address Inheritance, Change in the Past  .

Features

When creating or changing an installed base in the structure, select the installed base or the relevant components and choose the appropriate assignment block.

Note Note

The inherited addresses and partners are not displayed if you select a component and display the address or parties/organizations involved in the assignment block. Only addresses, parties involved, and organizations that were directly assigned are displayed here.

End of the note.

Depending on the Customizing settings, the address data may be used to calculate the geographical coordinates for an installed base or an installed base component. This data is important for resource planning for calculating the optimum route.