"Partner Delivery Point Not Found" in SUS Purchase Order

Question

Working on SRM5.0, I have created Purchase Orders in SRM which have been transmitted to SUS via XI. The PO's appear in SUS, but when I try to process the PO as the vendor (in order to send a PO response / goods confirmation etc back to SRM), the following error message appears "Partner Delivery Point not found" and the process can go no further.
When looking at the partner functions that are maintained in the SUS
PO, I can see a Sold-to party and a Goods recipient that have both a
Business Partner Number and an Address. However, the Delivery Point
partner has no Business Partner number, but does have an Address.
I am fairly certain there is no problem with the SRM shopping cart / PO. One of the examples I have looked at is as follows:
Cart and PO have the following partners maintained:
Requester - 509
Goods Recipient - 509
Delivery Point - 491
Location - 511
Vendor - 100122
The XML message sent via XI for this cart / PO has the following partners (confusing use of naming!):
Buyer - 491
Seller - 100122
Product Recipient - 509
Bill-to - 491 (Although same BP number as delivery point above, address is not the same and does not appear to come from any of the BP's mentioned above!)
Ship-to - 511 (Although same BP number as location above, address is not the same and does not appear to come from any of the BP's mentioned above and is same address as the Bill-to)
The SUS PO (attached) has the following partners:
Sold-to - 491
Goods Recipient - 509
Delivery Point - (Blank BP Number but address appears to come from business partner 491 as it is the same as the sold-to address above)
My understanding of this 'mapping' between the 3 components is as follows:
In the SRM shopping cart / PO you need the partners Requester, Goods Recipient, Delivery Point, Location and Vendor.
In the SUS PO you need at least Sold-to party, Goods Recipient and Delivery Point.
When SRM generates the XML message for the PO (to go to SUS via XI), it maps the business partners from the SRM PO to business partners in the XML file.
When SUS receives the XML message from XI, it maps the business partners from the XML file to the appropriate place in the SUS PO
Looking at my example, it is not obvious how the partners map from SRM to XML message in XI to SUS and nowhere in the XML message is there an address maintained without a business partner number so it appears that the business partner number is being 'lost' by SUS as it creates the PO.
I have searched OSS extensively and found very few messages which seem relevant (744231 looked promising, but has already been applied according to our patch level).
Any pointers???
Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

Hi
<b>Please go through the following SAP OSS Notes as well, which will help -></b>
Note 723680 - Corrections in the mapping of SAP XML messages
Note 744231 - No locations and delivery addresses are transferred
<u>Related Notes</u>
Note 728629 - SRM 4.0 XML confirmation/invoice hierarchy items
Note 723594 - SRM 4.0 XML confirmation mapping error
Note 725895 - SUS 2.0 SP04 Patch for Java
Note 731037 - Converting SUS 1.0 and SUS 2.0 documents to SUS 3.0
Note 679671 SUS 2.0 WPS SP03 Patch 4 / SP04 Patch 6
Note 895217 - SUS30: SUS not integrated with CUA currently
Note 825820 - SRM40-SUS: Follow-on error when converting purchase orders
Note 782482 - Document texts are missing after conversion to SUS 3.0
Do let me know.
Regards
- Atul