Business Partner who is vendor and customer

Please explain me the logic behind the concept that we should not buy from customer and we should not sell to vendor in [SAP Business One|http://www.brio.co.in/sapbusinessoneoverview.aspx]. In real life it happens frequently that we buy and sell to a same person. Is there any work around? or is there any update 2007 where we can sell and purchase from same business partner.
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Abdul Muneem

HI Muneem,
When a question is 'why', it is quite hard to answer.
I try to help you with 'how' questions.
You can post Development Requests on the Development Forum:
[SAP Business One Product Development Collaboration|/community [original link is broken];
Solution Management checks that forum.
Hope it helps.
Jesper

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Can I use one Business Partner repository for Vendor and Customer? or do we have to use Vendor and Customer Repository separately. How can we do that? What are the pros and cons? can any one provide some examples:

Hi Deepak
The key purpose of SAP "enabling" the facility of multiple main tables in a repository is to primarily "manage" those master data objects that are related to each other. Typical examples will be a) Customer - Material, b) Supplier - Material, etc.
While, it is pretty easy to add multiple main tables in a repository, it is also important to understand the purpose of doing so based on the business requirements.
Besides, you got to be aware that in case you are "fixing" any issues with one main table (master data object) for which you have to unload the repository, the users will not be able to use the repository that has a main table defined for other master data object. Hence, there are pros and cons of using this capability of multiple main tables.
So, it is really important to understand the "W's" - What, Why, When, Where, Who of Data modeling before actually working on the "H" - How to in the SAP MDM tool.
Hope this helps.
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Neelesh

Same Business Partner as both Vendor and Customer !!!!

Hi,
Our client has a customer, say XYZ, who is also a vendor to our client. XYZ sends them Raw Material and bills them for that. Our client sends him Finished goods and bills him for that.
When he pays our client, the amount for multiple bills of Finished Goods delivery, he adjusts the Purchase Bills with reference to his A/P Invoice Number in the total A/R Invoice value for those bills.
How to adjust that and handle this case in SAP B1???
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Sudatta Mohanty

Hi Sudatta,
please check this wiki article from the EoP & see if it helps:
[How to offset a business partner who is simultaneously a supplier and a customer? |https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69861411]
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Trading partner in GL, Vendor and Customer master

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This is with reference to the clarification on field Trading partner in GL, vendor and customer master
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1) Is there any impact on consolidation module if we did not maintain trading partner in GL master, vendor master & customer master
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It will effect in Interunit eliminations. and all the transaction which occured betweeen inter-units will be effected.
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We do business with a number of companies who are both vendors and customers and I am wondering if there is a better way of dealing with contra payments..
At the moment I would do the following:
I want to pay a supplier's November AP Invoices but they also owe us (a lesser amount) for November AR Invoices....
1. I create an incoming payment for the amount of the AR Invoices but deposit the payment to a 'contra' account instead of our current account. (No actual funds have been received from the supplier/customer)
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3. I create a second payment for the balance of the part-paid AP Invoice and the rest of the due AP Invoices. I choose the current account as the payment account.
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Check this WIKI, How to offset a business partner who is simultaneously a supplier and a customer?
[https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69861411]

Profit Center population in the Vendor and Customer Line items

hello
our client is asking for getting profit center in the vendor and customer line items where in the view FBL5n and fbl1n we are not getting the profit center populated - in the new gl i understand that there is a standard report based on the gl account.
but our business is not satisfied with the report and expecting report at profit center level.
Can any one suggest any way of doing this.
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Vijay

Dear Vijay,
Let me provide you my view of solutioning for this. This is an enahcement that needs to be done
1. You can get the profit center from the given vendor and customer line item at the time of posting, using an enahcement you will be able to capture it.
2. Existing the profit center field is not populated in the BSIK,BSAK,BSID and BSAD tables
3. Hence, in the same enhancement once you capture the profit center , you can write the code that profit center is updated in these tables also.
4. This will help you to do the vendor line item wise selection in the FBL1N, FBL5N profit center wise.
Constraints of this solution:
The only constraint remains where in the for a given document if there are multiple profit center, then the system will do the splitting profit center wise for a vendor line item, which will not populate the profit center in those tables as there is only one field available in the bsid etc.. tables.
This basically would be the one the soltuion where in as seeen from the end user ther eis no change in the front end interface , the way they are doing always they can do.
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Bharathi.

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Deal ALL,
We have not activated Business Area.
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Request you all to reply.
Thanks & Regards,
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Hi
Try the transaction codes for Profit Display by suitable config in TCode O7F1, O7F2, O7F3
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Gl, vendor and customer balances in program

I need to upload GL, Vendor and customer balances in single program(bapi or normal recording also.). If any body is having code for this and any thread is available please help me .. urgent...
Thanks inadvance
praveen

The Ope item balances may be taken adn clean the data.
For AP some clients curt the check and release it later .
If that is the case no need to load AP items,Agian this is depend on the business arrangemnets.
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Vendor and Customer from 11.5.8 to R12

Dear all,
We are using E-Business Suite 11.5.8 and we will re-implement on R12. What is the quickest way to import vendor and customer informations from 11.5.8 to R12? so that we don't have to re-input all informatioin all over again.
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Thanks.

Hi,
In R12 the architecture has changed to TCA, so one way of migrating your data is using Customer and Supplier Open interface.
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Vendor and Customer BADI needed

Hi Folks,
I need BADI for Vendor and Customer which can store Purchase and Sales organization details entered while creating Vendor and Customer in xk01,xd01 TX Codes respectively.....
Thanks in Advance.
Prasad.

You may use the following [BTE Business Transaction Events|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/95/1632f0ba9511d29e310000e839cd96/frameset.htm]
- 00001321 - CUSTOMER MASTER DATA: Save with data transfer Call up during creation/change
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The Ope item balances may be taken adn clean the data.
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If that is the case no need to load AP items,Agian this is depend on the business arrangemnets.
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Create a GL account ( data conversion acccount)
Customer:
Dr Customer
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Hope this is clear. Allot the points if you get some resolution for yr doubt.
Chitras

How can i clear the vendor and customer open line items at a time same vendor as a customer of the company (same vendor same customer and equal invoices )

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X Ltd. will be Vendor & Customer.
Purchase Invoice is booked under Vendor SAP number & Sales Invoice is booked under Customer SAP number. Then you can transfer amount from Vendor to Customer or vice versa with T-code F-04.
Then if you have transferred amount from customer to Vendor (F-04), Vendor account will have two entries Debit & Credit. Then go for clearance with T-code F-44 clear Vendor.

Printing confirmation of balance for vendors and customer-urgent

Hi,
Thanx Vamsi for the reply.
I have got 1 more doubt.we are using CUSTOMISED correspondence types.The annexure we give has only the open items.But the users want a list of cleared items to appear in the list.
Will the confirmation have only open items ???? or can it take even the cleared items along with it.Can the print program be modified to take even the cleared items along with it.
Kindly advise.
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Karpagam

Hi,
We are using print program SAPF130K and SAPF130D for vendor and customer respectively.
My query is can we bring even the cleared items alongwith the open items in the same print program???
Now we have line items of open line items only?? As per our exploration into the program... we get only open items..
Also we are using SAP10 and SAP11 as the correspondence type.Kindly advise as to correspondence type should be changed so that it can print both the open and cleared items?
Please reply ASAP as it is very urgent.
Thanks in advance.
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Karpagam

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We have got following requirement.
Currently we are storing pysical invoice copies of vendor and customer in a pysical file. But now we want to see the image of invoices in vendor and customer document respectively.
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Please suggest.
Best Regards,
Tapan

Hi Tapan,
At my company we are currently doing just this.
We have a server outside of SAP that stores our images. We did not want to store the images within SAP.
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We do all our AP input from images. After an invoice is entered, and the document number is generated, we forward the image to a
e mail address for the server using the document number in the subject line. The image gets attached to the document. Then the image can be viewed by clicking on the Services for object icon.
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In this at storage location level, we can assign, sales org/distribution channel, division and VENDOR and CUSTOMER to storage location.
The customer number is used a sold-to-party in outbound deliveries.
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If I am assiging the VENDOR Number here to every storage location, then when I am creating cross-company code Stock transport order, which vendor code I will select the one assigned to PLANT or one Assigned to Storage location.
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2. What's the ultimaye use of this vendor code
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Hi,
Define Shipping Data
Here in this step you maintain the customer number of the receiving plant. This customer number is used in SD shipping processing to identify the goods recipient (ship-to party) if stock transfer to be carried out with an SD delivery
A goods receipt can be planned in the receiving plant.
You can enter a vendor (transport vendor) in the stock transport order
In IMG step "Define Shipping Data for Storage Location".
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Rewards If usful
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Sanjay L

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