Intercompany sales/billing - trading partner functionality

Hi Guys,
I understand the theory of trading partner.
But if anyone can give me an example (accounting entries) of trading partner in intercompany sales/billing..that would be very helpful.
Thanks and Regards,
MS

Hi Roman,
As you said, trading partner functionality in SAP is an excellent tool for inter-company transactions and elimination of intercompany payables and receivables for consolidation purposes.
1. The pieces of configuration / master data maintenance you need are:
a. SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG (F5) -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Financial Accounting -> Define Company (OX15)
b. SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG (F5) -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Financial Accounting -> Assign company code to company (OX16)
c. SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG (F5) -> Financial Accounting -> Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Document -> Document Header -> Define Document Types (OBA7) - Here, for document types you want to use for inter-company postings, you may want to check the checkboxes 'Inter-company postgs' and/or 'Enter trading partner'. Read the SAP Help Documentation on these fields (press F1 when on the field).
d. Create your sister concerns as customers and vendors (preferably under an account group different from your external customers/vendors) and specify the Company you have created in (a) above in the Trading Partner field of Control data tab.
e. Enter Trading Partner in relevant G/L accounts (FS00) in Type/Description tab -> 'Consolidation data in chart of accounts' section.
f. Consider substitution rules (OBBH) for substituting Trading Partner in required transactions.
2. Things to consider for implementing the Trading Partner functionality for entities already performing day to day transactions on SAP.
I am not pretty sure about this, but I guess it is better to go for the change after you end a fiscal year and from the beginning of the next.
3. I think it is better to enable this functionality for everyone on SAP at once.
Good luck!
Srikanth

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Trading partner functionality

Hi Gurus,
Can you tell me about how the trading partner functionality in customer and vendor master is used.
How is this useful for inter company balance reconciliations
Regards,

Hi,
Trading partner is any entity with which the organization does any kind of business transaction.
Business partners are used to define the rights and responsibilities of each business partner in a business transaction. You assign partner functions when you create a master record for a business partner.
Features
The following are examples of trading partner functions(as customers) that are defined in the standard system:
●     Partner functions for partner type customer
○     Sold-to Party
Contains data on sales, such as the assignment to a sales office or a valid price list
○     Ship-to Party
Contains data for shipping, such as unloading point and goods receiving hours
○     Bill-to Party
Contains the address and data on document printing and electronic communication
○     Payer
Contains data on billing schedules and bank details
●     Partner functions for partner type vendor
○     Ordering address
○     Invoice presented by
○     Goods supplier
○     Alternative payee
●     Partner functions for other partner types, for example, personnel (HR master records)
Customer partner functions
The company or person who places an order can be the same company or person who receives the goods and the invoice and pays. Because this customer assumes all partner functions, you create one master record for the customer. You create a customer master record for the sold-to party in which you enter data required for the other partner functions.
A subsidiary office can place an order and its head office can pay the invoice. In this case, you divide partner functions among the different offices. You need a corresponding number of customer master records. In one master record you enter, for example, the address of the sold-to party for correspondence, in the other, the address of the ship-to party for delivery. You establish a link between the partner functions in the customer master record of the sold-to party by entering the customer number of the respective partner functions.
Prerequisites
When creating master records, you define the partner functions for business partners by assigning an account group. For partner types customer and vendor, you define which account group can be used for which partner function. You do this in Customizing in the following activities:
●     Customer
In Customizing for Basic Functions (SD) in the activity Assign partner functions on the debit side to account groups.
●     Vendor
In Customizing for Purchasing (MM) in the activity Define permissible partner roles per account group.
The partner determination procedure specifies the partner functions that are allowed or mandatory for processing a particular business transaction, such as a sales or purchase order.
Analogous is business partner from vendor point of view.
Hope this helps.
Rgds
manish

Implementing Trading Partner Functionality

Our business has been on SAP for approximately 7 1/2 years. Over that time there have been many intercompany transactions, but the Trading Partner functionality has never been implemented. Based on my review, Trading Partner appears to be a helpful tool for intercompany transactions. Our business is currently running SAP 4.7. With that:
-What are the pieces that need to be configured to enable Trading Partner (SPRO Transactions or menu paths)?
-What are some things to consider for implementing the Trading Partner functionality for entities already performing day to day transactions on SAP?
-Is it better to enable this functionality for everyone on SAP at once, or on a company code by company code basis?
Thanks in advance for your advice
Roman

Hi Roman,
As you said, trading partner functionality in SAP is an excellent tool for inter-company transactions and elimination of intercompany payables and receivables for consolidation purposes.
1. The pieces of configuration / master data maintenance you need are:
a. SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG (F5) -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Financial Accounting -> Define Company (OX15)
b. SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG (F5) -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Financial Accounting -> Assign company code to company (OX16)
c. SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG (F5) -> Financial Accounting -> Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Document -> Document Header -> Define Document Types (OBA7) - Here, for document types you want to use for inter-company postings, you may want to check the checkboxes 'Inter-company postgs' and/or 'Enter trading partner'. Read the SAP Help Documentation on these fields (press F1 when on the field).
d. Create your sister concerns as customers and vendors (preferably under an account group different from your external customers/vendors) and specify the Company you have created in (a) above in the Trading Partner field of Control data tab.
e. Enter Trading Partner in relevant G/L accounts (FS00) in Type/Description tab -> 'Consolidation data in chart of accounts' section.
f. Consider substitution rules (OBBH) for substituting Trading Partner in required transactions.
2. Things to consider for implementing the Trading Partner functionality for entities already performing day to day transactions on SAP.
I am not pretty sure about this, but I guess it is better to go for the change after you end a fiscal year and from the beginning of the next.
3. I think it is better to enable this functionality for everyone on SAP at once.
Good luck!
Srikanth

Sales District and Partner function relationship in customer master

Hello there
I am working on a report and need to know one table relation for sales District and Partner function
i have a requirement , where i want to list all the partner number/Partner function assign to the customer with ref to the sales District
we have one partner function Tab at sales Area tab in customer master , and another when we click on Sales district tab at header will get another window where we maintain partner function relate to the sales District , i want to have all those partner function in report , can you please help me where i can find that in table ? when i do F1 its says KNVP but that table maintain at the sales area leval , not for the Sales District !! if you can help
thanks
Sonam

Hi Sonam -
and another when we click on Sales district tab at header will get another window where we maintain partner function relate to the sales District
Do you have custom table/maintenance for sales district? Are you not maintaining Sales District in Sales Tab of customer master.
You have to look for the field and table where you have maintained sales distict along with Customer and join the customer with KNVP customers and get all the partners.
For Example - if you have mainationed sales district in KNVV table of BZIRK field then you have to join KNVV -KUNNR with KNVP-KUNNR and extract all records of customer distict and associated partner functions.
Let me know,if the given solution is not applicable for your case.
Thanks
Amit Gupta

Multiple bill to partner function in sales order

How can a partner function be setup that it can appear more than once in a sales order ?
Need to make a sales orders with more than one "bill to partner". When I add the same partner function with another customer in the header of the sales order I get error message VPD012 : "partner function ZX can only occur 1 times in procedure ZEXP (sales document header) .
I searched OSS, and debugged for a while to try to find where that "1" is coming from.
In function SD_PCHECK_PARVW_COUNT_OK, a counter is set to "1" based on the field TPAER-PAREI (line 86). Allthough the flag "unique" is not set in partner function ZX, I get this error.
Some further in the function, there is the comment :
102 * currently uniqueness of a partner is mandatory in sales docs, so
103 * if no CAS-Doc, partner has to be unique if not AA or AW
Perhaps, in sales orders it is not at all possible to use multiple partners with the same partner function in sales orders ?
Anyone having experience with this ?
Thanks,

Hi Dries,
Even after you created your order you can maintain different bill to party.
Go to VA02 screen
Enter your order number.Enter.
Goto item details Partners tab:
Now all the details are in editable mode.enter your bill to party.Make sure your bill to party is in same sales area and company code as of sold to party.After entering the taxes will be redetermined message will come.
Enter.
Save.
Now You do the same for all other items.
Regards,
Mohan.

Sales employee and partner function.

Hello ,
We have reporting requirement at our client as Sales by Sales employee . I can see the standard charactierstic " 0SALES_EMPL" in our Sales overview cube which is mapped to PVRTNR at R/3 side .
But at our client Sales employee is maintained through partner function and we have lot of differnet parther function to update the Sales Rep on SO and Billing document . So basically Partner function is ER , the Personal number is getting updated.
So with Standard field of PVRTNR - Sales empl doesn't get used in my scenario .
Could you please let me know , now how can I update this Sales Rep on my Sales Order header or On Billing document ?
Let me know if my question is not clear .
Regards

Thanks ..That's a nice approach ..but one more ..
If there are more than one Sales Rep assigned to Sales Order , then how to manage .
As i said , we have mutiple partner function ...Let me put a table , as it is functional information which I am not getting correctly .
Hope this will help you to understand .
May assign to Ship to     Description
BP     Bill-to
PY     Payer
DP     Depot
ER     Telesales Specialist
Y0     Area Specialists
Y1     Primary Account Manager
Y2     Bulk Specialist
Y3     Safety Specialist
Y4     Spec Gas Specialist
Y5     Medical Specialist
Y6     Construction Specialist
Y7     Specialty Products Specialist
Y8     Automation Specialist
May assign to Y0     Description
Z2     Bulk Specialist
Z3     Safety Specialist
Z4     Spec Gas Specialist
Z5     Medical Specialist
Z6     Construction Specialist
Z7     Specialty Products Specialist
Z8     Automation Specialist
Note 1: "Y0 - Area Specialists" will be assigned to ship-to but will be set up using te ZINT account group as the Cash Account for that branch
When the partner function is Y* , Sales Rep will be assigned to Kunn2 in KNVP table .
Please help me , how can we manage .
Regards

Manage import duties in intercompany sales billing

Dear experts,
We have a scenario where:
In country A, we have a company Ca who is selling goods to a local customer.
The goods are shipped directly to the customer from a plant Pb, belonging to company Cb in country B.
So obviously, this can be managed through an intercompany sale flow.
The issue is that we're delivering the customer directly and we are dealing with the import duties.
In normal situations, we create a billing document from company Ca to the final customer.
And Company Cb invoices Company Ca, and then an idoc is doing the AP posting in company Ca for the purchase side with the same amount as the intercompany invoice.
Any idea how we can manage the import duties in this case, because these import duties are paid directly to the local customs office and are based on the amount of the intercompany billing.
Any help is appreciated.
Best regards;
Omar Bouatim

Dear Piaccoo:
Please check Cross company scenario instead Intercompany flow.
Regards Antonio Martinez

What BOR Object contains Sales Team Members (Partner Functions)

We are running SAP CRM 7.0 and I've created a nice workflow upon creation of an opportunity.
See this link which I posted a few days ago: Re: Get employee responsible email
The opportunity BO BOR Object type is BUS2000111.
Within this object if I click the workflow container is another container for EmployeeResponsibleUser and here I was able to get the "Employee Responsible" by specifying "NameWithLeadingUS". This grabbed the email and sent it to the email address of the employee responsible.
This works great, but along with the employee responsible (which is just a partner function) I need to send the email to other Sales Team members (other partner functions defined in SPRO).
These members are defined as "Partner Functions".
Here is a screen shot of our SAP CRM 7.0 system with the partner functions:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5086/65625843.png
Right now in the container of BUS2000111 I can only see the employee responsible. How would I be able to see the other Partner functions like "Business Account Manager" or "Local Account Manager" etc...
They are all defined in SPRO
SPRO->CRM->Basic Functions->Partner Processing->Define Partner Functions
And then related in
SPRO->CRM->Basic Functions->Partner Processing->Define Partner Determination Procedure
I need these objects to be able to send email to these guys as well...So my question is what BOR object are these members stored in?

We've transfered all main Partners by the solution provided in Extract Custom Fields to BW

Sales order level partner Function error

Hi,
I created New Partner Function ZB (Agent ) and also i have done partner Determination
According to my client requirement each customer having more than 2 agents so i have assigned in the customer master
Coming to Sales order, i created sales order , for that customer has 3 agents from header level system is picking one agent and coming to line items ( i created one line item ) system is not showing 3 agents its showing i tried manual entry also
bcoz i am giving agent commission to those agents based on the sales
plz guide how to solve the issue

Hi,
By using the path specified below,
SPRO>Sales and Distribution>Basic Functions>Partner Determination>Set Up Partner Determination-->Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document Header.
Click on "Partner Determination Procedure Assignment".
Check the partner procedure assigned to your Sales order type.
Click on "Partner Determination Procedures".
Select the Partner procedure noted earlier.
Click on "Partner Functions in Procedure".Check whether "ZB" is there in the partner functions list or not.
Click on "Partner Functions".
Select the entry "ZB".Ensure that there is no tick mark for the field "Unique".
Regards,
Krishna.

Sales User exit --Partner Function

Hi,
We are upgrading to ECC 5.0
User doesn't enter ship to on the first screen of VA01.He enters only Sold to.
They go to items--> partner and enter 'SH' and corresponding value.
After they press enter, message about tax determination comes and userexit USEREXIT_NEW_PRICING_VBAP is invoked. I insert two partner functions in xvbpa. But once the partner screen comes again, these 2 partner functions are not shown there on partner screen. While we can see them in 4.5.
Please help out.
Thanks,
Anuranjan

Hi Lokesh,
Thanks for reply.
Here is the information
          z_vbpa-posnr = xvbap-posnr.
          z_vbpa-parvw = knvp-parvw.
          z_vbpa-kunnr = knvp-kunn2.
      select single * from kna1 where kunnr = knvp-kunn2.
          z_vbpa-adrnr = kna1-adrnr.
          z_vbpa-land1 = kna1-land1.
          z_vbpa-adrda = 'D'.
          z_vbpa-name1 = kna1-name1.
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          z_vbpa-nrart = tpar-nrart.
          z_vbpa-fehgr = tpar-fehgr.
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Sales order partner function

Hi experts,
While creating sales orders all partner function should get copied from contract for same sales order no. ,
But In our system only sold-to, bill-to, ship- to & payer get copied from contracts to sales order., other partner functions are custom functions...
where I can find logic for this functionality?
points will be rewarded.
neo

May be you can try in MV45AFZZ -> somewhere user exit will trigger..
most of the scenario which will be in Config.
SPRO ->click on IMG ->sales and distribution -> partners..
Better to post in SD Forum ,you may get fast response
Thanks
Seshu

Partner function should be mandatory for a perticular sales org

We have a requirement to make Sales representative assignment to the sold-to-party mandatory , during order creation ( for a particular sale org) . We have to generate incompletion log for all the orders where this partner function is missing in the header data . Please throw some light on how to do this.

Dear Satya,
I don't think it is possible sales organisation wise
But you can have this requirement sales document type wise or item category wise or Customer account group wise through maintaining the check mark for sales employee partner function in the Mandatory check box at partner functions in procedure step in the partner dtermination.
Because partner functions maintained in the prtner procedure that procedure will assigned at these levels.
Customer Master
Sales Document Header
Sales Document Item
Delivery
Shipment
Billing Header
Billing Item
You can do like this
You define different customer account group for that sales organisation
Define new Partner determination procedure through copying existing standard one
You activate mandatory check for sales employee partner function in that new prtner determination procedure.
You assign this new procedure to the account group which is sales organisation specific.
Now you create customer master data with that account group in that specific sales org now system will give the error message if don't maintain the sales employee in that customer master data>sales area data>partner functions tab.
Before going to create customer master you create Sales employee master throuh VPE1 transaction.
Still not satisfied
Try with these User Exits with help of ABAPer
User Exits for Partner Determination
Partner determination contains the following user exits for your use:
EXIT_SAPLV09A_001
You can use this user exit to control whether an address that was entered manually and has already been used in other documents (referenced), should be referenced again if it changes or whether a new address shold be created (duplicated).
EXIT_SAPLV09A_002
Call up this user exit if a customer has not been maintained in the current sales area.
EXIT_SAPLV09A_003
Use this user exit to control the origin of partners in the partner determination procedure (origin X, Y or Z). If X, Y, or Z has been entered in the Origin field, this user exit is automatically called up during partner determination.
EXIT_SAPLV09A_004
Use this user exit to integrate your own check in a program, that runs before the partner is saved in the document.
For more detailed information, see the program documentation for each ofthe user exits.
I hope this will help you,
Regards,
Murali.
Edited by: Murali Mohan.Tallapaneni on Dec 15, 2008 10:47 AM
Edited by: Murali Mohan.Tallapaneni on Dec 15, 2008 10:50 AM

What is the table for partner functions in Billing document

Hello Experts,
As per the business requirement my functional consultant included Fright agent (created as a vendor) in billing document partner functions,
so they want to display the name fright agent on the invoice,
i have checked all the tables related to Billing document, i was unable to find the fright agent
I checked in VBPA table (partner function table) (remaining partner functions are there in vbpa table but fright agent is not there, Is there any function module is available to pick these information ,Please help me in this.

Read some documentation like [Partner Functions|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm40/helpdata/en/3c/92eceb484a11d5980800a0c9306667/frameset.htm], also be aware of the conversion exit on the field PARVW. (check via SM30 on view V_TPAR_SD)
Regards,
Raymond

Sales by Partner Functions

Dear Sirs,
Is there any way we can track sales by partner functions?
I have a particular requirement wherein my client wants to track the Sales by -
1. Corporate Group
2. Sale employee Partner Function
One Corporate group (e.g. Bhushan Steel) will be common in all the Sold Party of other customer codes of Bhushan steel (Like, Bhushan steel India Ltd., Bhushan Western India Ltd., Bhushan Steel Corporation).
Similarly, 1 Sales Employee partner function will be common in multiple sold to party.
Please suggest some ideas for development / existing standard functionality of SAP too map the sale by these Partner Functions.
Regards,
Rajni.

Hi
Rajani Asai
Use Tcode VA05 -- Partner function option is there if
1. Corporate Group
2. Sale employee Partner Function
these two are not there then u go to SPRO -
Sales and Distribution -
Sales --- Lists --- Set Updating Of Partner Index
there u have to maintain transaction group 0 ( zero ) for Sale order and select yr patrner function. And then use Tcode VA05.
Thx.

Proposal of partner function and related master record in sales order

Hi Gurus,
As we know, a partner determination procedure is used to propose partner functions and the master data tied to them in the sales order.
I need to confirm the following if understanding is correct:
1. 1st a customer master record is entered with all the partner functions, say, SP SH PY BP and 9E (PE partner type).
The respective master record values like who is the SP SH PY BP and 9E are specified in the partner function tab also.
This customer master is assigned to a account group.
2. a Partner determination procedure is created and the same partner functions assigned to it.
Next, this procedure is assigned to the account group.
3. When I create an order for this customer, the sales order's partner function tab should automatically be populated with the partner functions and the respective master data value as defined in the customer master record.
Questions:
1. What if the partner determination procedure was not defined with 9E Partner function but the customer master record is?
2. What if the customer master record was not defined with 9E but the partner procedure is?
3. Why the partner procedure need to define the partner functions if its assigned to account group to which the customer master is assigned to already?
4. If the partner function 9E is not proposed in the sales order, can user manually enter this partner function and the respective master record value in the sales order partner function tab?
Have a great day!
regards
M Russo

Hi,
1. What if the partner determination procedure was not defined with 9E Partner function but the customer master record is?
If the partner determination procedure is not defiend you can not maintain same in customer master the system will through you error message PE is missing.
2. What if the customer master record was not defined with 9E but the partner procedure is?
It depends how you want propose the same,
According the function it behaves, you can make this field is mandatory if you want the same is to customer master
3. Why the partner procedure need to define the partner functions if its assigned to account group to which the customer master is assigned to already?
normally the standard partner procedure follows as it is SP SH BL PY Still if you want add some other partners(agent,employee,contact person...etc.) you can define the same in the procedure.
4. If the partner function 9E is not proposed in the sales order, can user manually enter this partner function and the respective master record value in the sales order partner function tab?
As you can refer the second point if you set as optional you can enter the same in customer master partner function tab.
Hope this can helps,
Thanks and Best Regards,
Muralidharan S

Intercompany sales/billing - trading partner functionality

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