One sold to party, multiple ship to, bill to and payers

Question

Hi all,
My requirement is that one sold to party should have three ship to, two bill to, and one payer. In sap partner determination how we have to configure this, can we use single account group and also tell me step wise process. Also want to know that can we change partners at sales order level, if so what settings we have to do and how this can be done at order level
Points assured for benificial answers.
Sunanda.P

Answer 1

Hello Sunanda,
In VOPA transaction code, you create a partner determination procedure. Here you specify the partner functions to be used & also mark the mandatory partner functions.
This partner determination procedure is then assigned to the account group. Basically the standard account group for "sold to party - 0001" has all partner functions "SP", "SH", "BP" & "PY". Your requirement demands separate partner functions for SP, SH, BP & PY.
So you will have to create 4 different partner determination procedures in VOPA.
ZSOL - SP
ZSHI - SH
ZBIL - BP
ZPAY - PY
Create similar acount groups ZSOL, ZSHI, ZBIL & ZPAY in transaction code OBD2 & do the appropriate field selection for them.
Now assign the partner determination procedures to the account groups in VOPA.
ZSOL = ZSOL
ZSHI = ZSHI
ZBIL = ZBIL
ZPAY = ZPAY
Also assign the individual partner functions to the account group as mentioned below:
ZSOL = SP, SH, BP, PY
ZSHI = SH
ZBIL = BP
ZPAY = PY
For ZSOL we assigned all partner functions because, when you will create a sold to party customer, you also have to specify who will the ship to party, bill to party & payer customers for the sold to party.
Now if you want you can assign the same number range to all account groups (assign a single person to create the customer master. So whenever a new customer is created, the partners will be created in line which will be very helpful)
Assume the number range is "0000010000 to 0000099999"
Create SP for 10000 = one sold to party
Create SH for 10001 = ship to party 1
Create SH for 10002 = ship to part 2
Create SH for 10003 = ship to party 3
Create BP for 10004 = bill to party 1
Create BP for 10005 = bill to party 2
Create PY for 10006 = one payer
Go to XD02 - select the customer 10000 - go to sales area data - partner functions.
Here in the "PF" column enter SH & in number enter 10001
Here in the "PF" column enter SH & in number enter 10002
Here in the "PF" column enter SH & in number enter 10003
Here in the "PF" column enter BP & in number enter 10004
Here in the "PF" column enter BP & in number enter 10005
Here in the "PF" column enter PY & in number enter 10006
So you have assigned the relevant partners to the sold to party.
Now when you create a sales order, after entering the sold to party when you press enter, the system will display a pop up asking fro selecting the relevant ship to, bill to & payer customers for that sales order.
For your second question - partners change in sales order:
Go to transaction code VOPA - select sales document header - click on partner procedures - double click on "TA-standard order" - here you will see the partner function & the columns & the entries shoulbe as under:
Func..........Desc................Not changeable.............Mandat. Func.......Source............Seq.
  SP.........Sold to party...............X.....................................X.....................---.................--
  SH.........Ship to party..............--...................................X.....................-..................--
  BP.........Bill to party................--...................................X.....................-..................--
  PY...........Payer......................--...................................X.....................-..................--
If you are not able to find the partner function either enter the partner function in the white box at the bottom, or place cursor on the partner function & press page down key on the key board.
This setting will allow you to change the partner in the sales order.
Hope this clarifies your doubt.
Thanks & regards,
Allabaqsh G. Patil