Partner roles in PO

Hello gurus,
short and simple question (cannot test it myself right now):
I defined a partner determination procedure for a certain PO document type (e.g. with just one role).
Then I created a vendor master, but did NOT maintain any partner roles in it.
Now, if I create a PO for that vendor, SAP will still create one partner role in the PO with the vendors vendor number in it, correct?
So this means, there is no need to maintain the partner role for all existing partners, right?
Thanks
Alicia

Ok, I found out myself: Fact is, if there are no partner roles maintained in vendor master, the system automatically selects the vendor number as a partner in the PO. But there is a warning that the specific partner role has not been created in vendor master.
So, you do not really have to maintain partner roles in vendor master, but it will give you annoying warnings if you do not.

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