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 Partner Functions

 

You can assign business partners to each other in the relevant partner functions that define the rights and responsibilities of each business partner in business transactions.

 

You can use partner functions as follows when you have created a relationship:

  • You can assign an appropriate partner function for a particular sales area to a business partner, depending on the existing relationship to another business partner.

  • A relationship can be assigned more than one partner function from the same partner function category in different sales areas.

    Example Example

    Business Partner Maintained

    Sales Area

    Partner Function

    Business Partner Assigned

    Relationship

    Smith Ltd.

    XYZ

    Payer

    Miller Ltd.

    Smith Ltd. “has the payer” Miller Ltd.
    End of the example.

  • Set the standard indicator to indicate that a business partner is the default standard partner for a particular partner function for the business partner you are maintaining.

    Note Note

    If you do not set the standard indicator, the business partner you have maintained takes on all partner functions.

    Assignments of customers to themselves for partner functions in SAP ERP are not distributed to SAP CRM.

    End of the note.

You can rename partner functions to suit your company's terminology. For example, in the real estate business, you might rename the sold-to party as Tenant.

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Partner Processing