Multiple ShipTo parties

Question

Dear Gurus,
How can we assign multiple ship-to parties to a sold to party? When a maximum of 999 ship-to's can be assigned to a sold-to, how can an assign shipto parties more than 999 to a sold to??
Moreover, when multiple ship-tos are there, in a sales order, can i make the system to throw a popup to show me the list of shipto's from which i can select the one i am interested in?
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards,
Tilak

Answer 1

One can define a maximum of 999 ship-to parties for a sold-to parties. In case you need to define more, the work-around can be that you make use of customer hierarchy. Refer to the link <a href="http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/customizing-customer-hierarchy-in-sd.htm">Customer hierachy</a> for more details and how to set-up the same.
In customer hierarchy, one can define the customers at say multiple level and then assign the partners in that district/area/Region, etc.
Regarding the other queries of making the ship-to parties pop-up at the time of order entry, the same can be achieved if you entry only the sold-to party in the order., this would make the system pop-up all the ship-to parties attached to the sold-to party.
The prequiste for this is that multiple ship-to parties are defined for the sold-to party in the customer master XD01/XD02
Regards,
Gauravjit
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