Account groups for Partner Roles in Vendor Master

1. Can we use same account group to create the vendor master for the different partner roles? for the partner roles like goods supplier, invoicing party, order party, etc do all these need to have different account groups , example one account group for goods supplier, one account group for invoicing party, etc , etc.
2. why we need the configuration for partner role in purchasing documents besides partner role settings for vendor account group. what is the logic behind to have partner role dependent settings for purchasing documents.
If we do not maintain for partner role settings for purchasing documents what effects it will cause?

> 1. We can have 1 account group represent all partner role or separate account group for each role.
1.If we use the same account group, the field selection control for fields will be applicable to partner roles also. If we have made vendor schema as mandatory in vendor master than we have to assign to partner vendor also. Example ordering address will not require company code data only purchase data, it will not require also pricing procedure as mandatory as no price determination will be required for ordering address.
I think we have to use combination of account group -same account group and different account group will defining vendors for partner function.
Do we require to assign vendor schema group to following vendors roles- goods suppliers, invoicing party and payee.
If we do not assign vendor schema group will these partner role determine price from the VN partner role. For example VN (vendor) has vendor schema group assigned, no vendor schema group assigned to invoicing party, then while doing MIRO the invoicing party will be defaulted. Do the price determined for VN role will be populated for invoicing party in MIRO?
> 2. we need partner role in purchasing doc because we can copy partner role from vendor master to purchasing document
It means we need to assign similar roles in schema for vendor account group and purchasing documents. If you see the schema in config for partner determination in IDES system, different roles exists in vendor schema and purchasing document schema.
This is creating confusion for me to understand.
Please clarify
2. we need partner role in purchasing doc because we can copy partner role from vendor master to purchasing document

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Hi all
can some one explain me how to enter the partner roles in vendor master record
In sap help i didnt understood this point
"When working with partner roles, you must maintain the following settings:
Separate vendor master records must exist for all the partners of a vendor that are to be entered in that vendors master record."
what does it mean
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BA1234       /*ordering address
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it has to be like this?
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Hi Sasi ,
What Ramkrishna explained is correct. I will try to illustrate it with the example.
Suppose you are creating a vendor 1234 which is Head office of the supplier where you need to place the order. But goods will be supplied from Pune plant so you should enter 1235 againts partner function GS , here 1235 is seperate vendor master record with Pune plant details & it must exist in the system so that you can use it as a partner function Hope this has cleared your doubts.
Similarly you vcan create other partner functions like payee,ordering party etc.
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I need to define a new vendor through Tcode: Xk01 / Mk01, but while defining particular screen know an partner functions, in this its asking partner number in lookup where no data ia avalibale to select and subsequently not able to save the vendor.
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Hi,
Before vendor creation, you have following configuration steps:
1. Create Vendor Account Group.OBD3
2. Maintain Number Ranges from Vendor account Group:XKN1,
3.Assignment of Number ranges to Account Group,OBAS
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Note:what is partner role:Generally during in your business transaction process we are specifying the roles involved by vendor i.e..... vendor act as a Goods Suplier, Ordering Address, Invoice Processing. Here all these functional activities by vendor we termed as partner functions (GS,IP, OA) in partner determination Process. SAP has standard Partner role and its 2 characters.
Example: A company supplying goods/material having plant in Hyderabad, south India branch office is in bangalore and head office is in Delhi.So hyderabad plant is your"GS",banglaore office is your"OA" and Delhi office is "IP"where you pay to Vendor. for the procurred material/goods.
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Partner roles in vendor master

Dear All,
we have raised a PO to vendor 400035, goods are supplied from vendor 400036 and invoice is received from vendor 400037. we have defined partner roles for vendor 400035(account group COMP).
VN-400035
GS-400036
IP-400037.
These partner roles are assigned to account group:
GS-0001- GOODS SUPPLIER
IP-0002-INVOICING PARTY
Defined partner schema H1 under partner settings in vendor master record.
this schema is assigned to account group COMP( That have vendor 4500035) at POrg, VSR, Plant Level.
Partner schema for purchasing document is defined.
it is assigned to document type.
ISSUE
1.When we are raising a PO the schema is appearing in partner Tab. The different invoicing party 400037 is pulled from vendor master record into PO. when doing MIRO, it is not appearing subsequently as the default value when invoice is posted. in MIRO it is appearing as 400035 instead of 400037.
2.same is the case in MIGO, in partner TAB 400035 is appearing instead of 400036.
please help on both issues where invoicing party should appear autimatically in MIRO and goods supplier in MIGO.
QUESTIONS
1. Is it necessary to have VN in schema. is the partner role VN required in schema. if VN is removed output determination doesnot take place.
2. what is difference between assigning vendor role to account group and to a document type? why it is required ?
can be use only one of them.
regards

Hi,
There are just 4 mandatory steps:
1: Define partner role
2: Define permisssable partner roles per account group
3: Define Partner Schemas
4: Assign Partner Schemas to Account Groups
You have setup your partner determination on purchasing org level.
But you forgot that you create a purchase order on plant level, which is a lower (more detailed) level. If the higher level box is left blank in your partner determination setup, then SAP tries to find partner on plant level. As you don't have partner on plant level maintained in your vendor, SAP can't find the vendor.
IMG > Materials Management > Purchasing > Partner determination > Partner Settings in Purchasing Documents > Define Partner Schemas
select your partner schema and then double click Partner roles in schema on the left.
In the appearing screen you can see the colomn for higher level
Then create a fresh PO and check.
Go through the below link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/a1/7b373944f7a97ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Hope this clarifies.
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Account Group and partner functions in customer master records

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I need your help to confirm the following understand if correct:
1. To create customer master record for partner function Ship-To, need to create a customer master record using the uniquely assigned account group for Ship-To , that is, 0002 . In this ship-to master record, define in its partner function tab, the other partner functions related to it.
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1. How does the system know or allow what codes a user can select (f4) or enter manually when defining in customer master record's partner function tab, the partner functions and their respective codes?
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hi russo,
this is to inform you that,
1. yes you are right.
2. you need to follow the steps as you said.
Question:
1. that you can find in the search basing on account group for partners. that assignment we should know russo which SH to be assigned to which SP. no need to have authorization for that, make a note of the list of SH and SP to be assigned that's all.
yes, he will able to select any SH from the list but make sure that we assign the correct SH to the list of SP.
2. that you will be defining it in Partner Determination Procedures. at the time of CMR creation you have to select the correct code that will get populated in sales order.
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Alternate Payee AZ partner role in Vendor Master pop up in PO

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Thanks for the reply.
AZ is not marked as unique. And we are able to enter multiple payees in permitted payees in vendor master. But when you get to PO it must propose the user for to select any one, right and that is not happening for only AZ. Let me know.
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I want to change the Accout group for the particular vendor. What are the things, i need to modify before changing the account group for the same.

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Re: change account group for vendor

hi expert,
i done the same which you mention in earlier form. i manage to change the account group for vendor master.
now there is an another thing came out that is for normal vendor i able to change the account group but there is another vendor which is one time vendor means for vendor i am going to from normal vendor account group to one time account selected account group so in this case when i am changing the group in xk07 the system is saying a following message.
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message no.F2692
so if anybody face the same problem give me your inputs.
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Hi KK,
For normal vendors, you cannot change the account group to 'One time vendor' group. The one time vendor group will have most of its felds suppressed in the master data. You have to enter the Name, address etc. only at the time of invoice posting.
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Why the partner usuage tab is suppresed in account group for SH,BP,and PY

Hi All,
why the partner usuage tab is suppresed in account group for ship to party, bill to party and payer.
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MAllesh.

Maybe some one did it to not allow end user to access different Partner functions to those Account Groups, in which case it is better to consult your boss to rechange it. If it is like that by default, then you can change it on your own if it is required.
You can make it to 'change mode' in T Code OBD2. Select your Account Group, click Details and select Sales Area Data and then Partner usage and then change 'Business partner assignment' as Op Entry.
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bye
Venkat - Hyd
Edited by: yajee venkat on Aug 22, 2008 1:44 PM

Partner Function in Vendor Master With Internal Number Range

Hello Friends,
I am creating vendor master record with internal no range.I wanted following clarifications.
1.In partner function screen, I want to have same vendor no which i am creating to be assigned automatically to VN.OA PI and GS funtions at the time of its master creation.This is not happening in my case
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Hi,
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Now for Partner function like VN,OA,PI and GS as you required and select the check box of mandatory
and save.
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3.Assignment of Number ranges to Account Group,OBAS
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Partner Function in Vendor master

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I want to know what is partner functions in Vendor master , what configuration settings required for it and is it necessary to maintain what can be the problem or why it use .
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Hi Zafar,
Basically Vendor partner functions allowed you to define the rights and responsibilities of business partner in a business transaction. The R/3 standard partner functions are :
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OA     Ordering address
VN     Vendor
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PI     Invoice presented by
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Is there any account group for sales representative in standard SAP?
Unlike customer do we need to create sales representative without account group?
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Has anyone seen this error message before?
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