Partner determination at shipment stage level

Dear All,
We would like to have multiple partner functions determined for a shipment stage within the shipment. Stages are maintained for the shipment route. But we dont want to maintain the service agent at stage level inside the route in IMG. This only determines one partner at stage level. We need multiple partners. Which exit can help here? I dont think normal partner determination exit can be used here like EXIT_SAPLV09A_004 as it is not called in shipment. Please suggest.
Best Regards
Dinesh

Hi,
I am sure whether it will helpful to you or not
Kindly check the menu path SPRO --> Sales & Distribution ---> Basic Functions --> Partner Determination -- > Set up Partner Determination -- >Set Up Partner Determination for Shipment
Regards,
Prasanna

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Necessity of the Partner Determination Procedure at Item Level

Hi Gurus,
What is the necessity of the Partner Determination Procedure at Item Level and in what case it is useful?
Regards,
Sarosh.

Dear,
It may happen that in a business transaction the partner in the document header does not apply to all items, for example, if specific goods for a customer are normally delivered to another ship-to party.
In sales documents and billing documents you can enter one of the deviating partners from the document header at item level.
You have planned to have the partner function in the partner determination procedure for sales document items or billing items.
When creating a document , the system copies the document header partners to the items. If you want to define another partner than the one in the document header at item level, overwrite the proposal from the item partner screen.
You have planned the partner function ship-to party in the partner determination procedure in Customizing for sales document items and have defined this as changeable.
Create a customer sales order as usual.
The system copies the partner from the customer master into the document header and then from the document header into the items.
Select the item, that should receive a deviating partner.
Choose Goto --> Item --> Partners.
The partner screen for the item appears. Here you can overwrite the changeable partner functions.
Try to read the SAP help. U will find some more info.
reward if helpful
Krishna Chaitanya

Partner Determination for Shipments

I have set up a new Partner type that is to be used as address information when we create a Shipment. I have set up the Parnter so if added to the Customer Master, it will default onto the Sales Order, and when the delivery is created, that Partner will show up too. What I am having trouble doing is when I create a Shipment, the new partner does not show up, even though I have set the new type up in Shipment Partner Determination. I do see that when I create a Shipment that the Forwarding Agent does not populate nor does the Carrier on the Partner tab unless I click the Planning button. So, I am wondering is there another place in configuration (configuration for the Planning button on the Shipment) that would need to be done to bring in this new Partner I created? If I look at the partner screen, I can manually add if I want to, but I need it to default if it is on the delivery.
Thanks,
Diane

Go to VT04 transaction and the Variants to be maintained with Grouping criteria.
you need to maintain cpoying routine for the shipment docu type to get forwarding agents in your screen..
Next 0VTK transaction
go to copy routine in the proposal tab maintain your cusomized routine or routine 1
Now you create the collective shipment with that variant(Grouping Criteria variant)
and check
regards,
A S

Partner determination at plant level

at present we are having partner determination at p.org level and plant level.
In our business we have a one vendor with 2 ordering addresses for 2 of our plants.
we had maintained these ordering address at vendor master --plant level.
when we are creating manual PO system is picking up the order address where as when we are creating automatic PO using ME59N transaction system is picking partner function maintained at p.org level rather than maintained at plant level.
plz suggest the solution.

Hi,
Check the intial requriment are there r not like source list before craeting the PO.
Check whether the Partner function are maintained at plant level in XK03 in partner fuctions selection field and also check whether you had ticked the data revel at plant level allowed.
Hope this will hep you.
BR,
Patil

What is the purpose why we define partner determination

hi
my question is what is use of partner determination. How many partner functions we should create in customer master. Is there any thumb rule we have create sd,bp,py,sh
thanks in advance

Hi,
We sell the goods to the customer who places the order. In SAP this ordering customer role is played by the sold to party. Similarly the shipping address is the ship to party used while creating the delivery. While creating the invoice we require the bill to party and for receiving the payment payer function is required. Hence partner determination procedure is very important in SD from the sales flow point of view otherwise if you create the customer without any partner function then you will not be able to create even the sales order.
SP, SH, BP & PY are the basic partner functions. Apart from this you can create partner function for commission agent, notifying party, sales employee, etc. You will find this in IMG-sales & distribution - basic functions - partner determination - set up partner determination. Click here and you will see
1.Set Up Partner Determination for Customer Master
2.Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document Header
3.Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document Item
4.Set Up Partner Determination for Delivery
5.Set Up Partner Determination for Shipment
6.Set Up Partner Determination for Billing Header
7.Set Up Partner Determination for Billing Item
8.Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Activities (CAS)
Just go through the documentation below. You will get a clear picture on how to do the partner determination procedure for a customer.
PARTNER DETERMINATION PROCEDURE
First go to OBD2 create customer account groups. Here you make new entries, click whether it is a one time customer, description. Also you can do the field selection here for general data, co. code data and sales area data.
Now go to IMG logistics general business partner customers control define & assign customer number ranges. Here you define the number range that you want and assign it to your customer account group.
Now go to VOPA here the selection will be on customer master, click on partner procedures, create the partner determination procedure. After saving it double click on it then you will face with a screen. Here you enter the partner function and you can select if you want the function as mandatory and not changeable.
Then go back, click on procedure assignment, enter your account group in the lower left corner of the screen, press enter then in front of that select your partner determination procedure. Then save it.
Then click on go back 2 times. Here you can see partner functions, click on it, then go to environment in the upper menu and select Acct. grp assignment. Here just select your partner function and in front of that you select your customer account group. Then save it. Now you have completed the pre requisites to create the customer master.
Then go to XD01 and create your customer master.
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Regards,
Allabaqsh G. Patil
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Yathish K

Partner Function- Sales Order item level

Hi Gurus,
I want to assigne Partner function -Employee responsible at sales order item level.
i did the configuration settings and i am able to assigne the employee numner at sales order item level but i am not able to assigne partner function-employee resp more than 1. i want to assigne N number partner function- Emp Resp.
kindly tell me the p

Hi sumith
As you want to assign N number of employees at item level . first of all go to IMG->sales and distribution ->basic functions->partner determination procedure->partner determination procedure at item level
While doing partner determination procedure at item level don't check the boxes when you assign to your partner determination procedure. and just assign the sales Employee partner function apart from the standard partner functions.(SP,SH,BP,PY).
Now when you create the sales order and manually you can assign the sales employee number for all items.
Regards
Srinath

Partner Determination at various levels....

Hi,
Partner Determination is possible at Customer Master level, Sales Document level , Item level etc....
During the sales order creation, the partner functions are taken from the Customer master... if yes, then what is the necessity of sales document level, item level partner determination....??? Also, if partner determination can be made possible at all levels then which takes the priority???
My second query is:
In customizing it is possible to determine the Ship to party based on the Sold party and also based on the Ship to party, the Forwarding Agent is determined....Where exactly the setting is done...????
Third query:
An analysis function is provided for tracing automatic automatic determination of business partners in sales documents..... Where is it possible ????
Regards

Hi,
your first question:
partner determination assignment vary as per your requirement. in general you assign it to account groups for customer master. for others like sales order/dlivery/billing, you only need to assign these if your requirement varies on delv/billing creation. take the exapmple of value contracts, here in general you assign the PD process KAB) to sales document type(WK1).
second:
this can be done, as you have already maintained the same. like take the example of order creation. if you just put SH data without putting the SP, the system will take the SP from the SH' master record (if you have maintained these for that SH)
Third:
as far as i know there is no analysis function for partner determination in sales document, like we have for material determination, listing/exclusion/freegoods and output.
Wishes,
Abhishek

Partner determination at item level in sales order

Dear experts,
I have 2 payers in customer master(sold to party). Is it possible to determine the partner function (Payer) at the item level in a sales order? I need to generate 2 billing documents with 2 line items. (1) Delivery related billing document (Item1) for which I want to bill to Payer 1. and (2) Order related billing document (item2) for which I want to bill to Payer 2.
Currently the in the above process I am able to do it manually by changing the partner (payer) at the item level.
Can the partner determination happen automatically based on the line items (Item category)? If possible, can it be restricted to document type?

Dear Friend,
The best option would be to enter / change the Payer manually in Partner Function.
Or the other option is as you have entered 2 payers in Customer Master for a single sold to party, sustem woild be give a pop-up for selecting one of two Payer while creating Sales Order. But still you will have to change the Payer at Item Level...
Also if Ship to Party is different then we have some option...
Hope this helps...
Thanks,
Jignesh Mehta

Block Partner determination at Item level

Hi All,
I dont want the partners to be automatically determined at the item level for certain partner functions like Employee responsible. To achieve I have checked on the "Block Determination" check box and have also no entry selected in the access sequence drop down for the partner function in the procedure. However the partners are being determined based on the entries at the header level.
How do i stop this from happening? Am i missing some config here?
Thanks
Reddy

Hello Reddy,
I think the issue is caused by the partner inheritance process. Please conisder note 1008458 very carefully. It looks like the the inheritance from header to item is switch on, therefore you get the same partner functions on item level. According to the note you have to set a the parameter in table smofparsfa.
I hope this information will help you.
BR
Rene

How to determine Deliveries per Shipment Stage?

Hello SAPients!
Is there any table or Function Module to get the corresponding Deliveries per Shipment Stage?
Thank you in advance for your help.

I think I found it, the table name is VTSP and it can be linked with VTTS and VTTP in this way:
VTTS-MANDT = VTSP-MANDT
VTTS-TKNUM = VTSP-TKNUM
VTTS-TSNUM = VTSP-TSNUM, and
VTSP-MANDT = VTTP-MANDT
VTSP-TKNUM = VTTP-TKNUM
VTSP-TPNUM = VTTP-TPNUM.
That is, it can be put exactly in the middle between the Shipment Stages and the Shipment Items (Corresponding delivery is in the shipment Items)
Thank you anyway.

How will i configure partner determination for customer master

how will i configure partner determination for customer master data.

hi
Check this
BUSINESS PARTNERS AND PARTNER DETERMINATION
In the partner determination procedure you can determine whether partner functions can or should occur in a partner object (Customer Master, Sales Document, Item Category etc.) For each object, in which partner function can be created, you can define partner procedures. This also means that
For Customer Master
For Sales Documents
For Sales Documents and Billing Documents: for items
We can define our partner determination procedure for each of these levels as shown below. In Blue are given the ones wherein the Partner Procedures are assigned to the Partner Objects
Customer Master Account Group
Sales Document Header Sales Document Type
Sales document Item Item Category in sales
Delivery Delivery Type
Billing Header Billing Type
Billing Item Billing Type
Sales Activity Sales Activity type
By assigning a procedure you determine for which account groups (for the customer master), which sales document types (for sales documents) and for which item categories this procedure would be valid.
In the partner determination procedure you can determine for each partner function
whether the partner function is an obligatory partner function
whether the partner function can be changed in the document
BUSINESS PARTNER FUNCTION
By assigning a business partner function to a partner you can determine which functions the partner fulfils in the business process. Partner Functions are classified using partner type. The partner type represents the roles played by the business partner within the business transaction.
Following partner functions exist in the standard process of Sales and Distribution
Partner Type Customer
Sold-to Party, Ship-to Party, Bill-to Party, Payer and Sold-to Party authorized to release against a contract. You can define the sold-to party authorized to release against a contract in the partner screen of a contract. This partner may only schedule orders with reference to this contract, even when he is not the sold-to party authorized against a contract.
Partner Type Contact Person
Contact persons are natural persons whom you must contact at the customers for business processing (e.g. purchasers) Contact person can be created directly in customer master record.
Partner Type Vendor
A forwarding agent is an example of a business partner on the credit side, who is included in a sales process. If you commission a particular forwarding agent for deliveries to a specific customer, you can define the forwarding agent in the customer master record as the partner.
The other possible partner functions on the credit side in the sale process are interpreters, auditors etc. The forwarding agent is an agent who performs transportation services. This includes organizing the shipment, delivery and receipt of the goods, arranging the carrier services and handling the customs issues.
Partner Type Personnel
Employee Responsible
Sales Personnel
You can enter an employee from your firm as the person responsible:
In the Customer Master If the employee is normally responsible for processing transactions with this customer.
In the Sales Document If the employee is responsible for processing the Business Transaction.
STEP WISE PROCESS FOR PARTNER DETERMINATION PROCEDURE
Sales and Distribution->Basic Functions->Partner Determination->set Up Partner Determination->Set up Partner Determination for Customer Master.
First go to OVT0 create customer account groups. Here you make new entries, click whether it is a one time customer, description. Also you can do the field selection here for general data, co. code data and sales area data.
Now go to IMG logistics general business partner customers control define & assign customer number ranges define the number. Here you range that you want and assign it to your customer account group.
Now go to VOPA here the selection will be on customer master, click on partner procedures, create the partner determination procedure. The following steps need to be done in partner determination area
Assign partner function to account group i.e SP,SH, BP, PY to account group (debit side ). Sales and Distribution->Basic Functions->Partner Determination->Assign Partner Functions on the debit side to account Groups.
Then create Partner Determination Procedure.
Assign the Partner Determination Procedure to Partner Function.
Then finally assign the Partner Determination Procedure to acc group.
Important Points in Business Partners and Partner Determination Procedure
Partner relationship maintained/defined in the customer master is proposed automatically in the document header when you create a sales document.
In customizing we can decide whether several partners can be assigned to one partner function in the customer master.
In sales documents, the system is configured so that only one partner can be assigned to each partner function.
We can define partners at item level in the sales documents.
Business Partners that are defined at the header level however cannot be changed at the item level.
You can prohibit anyone from changing a partner that has already been entered in a sales document.
It is also possible to manually change or enter the address of a partner, such as the Ship-to Party. This change does not affect the master record.

"Partner Determination Steps for Customer Master" clarification

Hi,
Let me clear myself at the outset itself, that I searched SDN for my below mentioned query, however I could not find any answer to my satisfaction....here I am posting again
In "Partner Determination for Customer Master", the following steps are undertaken -
Step 1:
1.a.) Create New Partner Determination Procedure
1.b.) For each Partner Determination Procedure, different Partner Functions, which are applicable for that specific determination procedure, are assigned. (along with other properties like if the PF is mandatory, not modifiable )
Step2:
"Partner Determination Procedure Assignment", here we assign different Partner Determination Procedure to different Account Groups. In other words, indirectly, we assign the partner functions to account groups. Right? (Please correct me if I am wrong)
Step3:
"Partner Function". Here we define new partner functions, (which are used in Step 1...)
Step4:
"Account Group- Function Assignment" - Here we assign the Partner Functions to Account Groups
Now My Question
(A) Since the Partner Functions are assigned (via partner determination procedure) to account groups in Step 1, then why Partner Functions are assigned AGAIN to account groups in Step 4. What is the significance of this assignment in Step 4.
(B) Is there is particular sequence of Steps (1 to 5), one should follow when somebody has to create new customer account group and/or new partner function.
Thanking you all in advance.

Dear SR
Leave SAP Partner Determination screen for 2 minutes and first understand the logic
1. Create the new partner functions
2. Create the new determination procedure
3. Link the new partner functions to the new determination procedure and add mandatory, non modifiable ,optional creteria
4. Assign the new determination procedure to the document type or account group at appropriate level
This is essence and this is for all 8 levels like CMR,sales doc header,item etc
Now coming to your qn
When you define a new account group ( you might be aware account group controls partner functions of CMR) you will say that your new account group will carry out patner functions like SP,SH,BP,PY
That is ACCOUNT GROUPS function assignment
Whenever you create a new account group you will do field selection in OBD2 like suppress optional.reqd etc,create no ranges and assign no ranges and also mainly this activity partner determination
These are must settings for a new account group
AG is the german key for sold to party Partner determination procedure
This is step 1
Then in next step you will tell AG will carry out such and such partner functions Step 2 like mandatory not modifiable etc
Step 3 is link the AG to your account group
Step 4 is partner functions say if you want to create a new partner function say SB special stock partner
(in concept this is the firststep)
Step 5 is once again partner function account group assignment
So when you create a new partner function you will do step 4 first and step 5 and then 1 and 2 and 3
when you create a new account group you will do step 5 and then 1 and 2 and 3
Hope you understand now
Partner functions are relatives in your family
Say in a family we have Father ,mother sister, brother (these 4 partner functions)
This is called as Happy Family and this Happy Family is the Partner determination procedure in SAP
This Happy Family is linked to the account group
So Happy family means there are 4 partner functions
So whenever you create a CMR in the account group this father.mother,brother,sister will come as default
Suppose you add another partner function say Uncle
First you have to create uncle
Then you have to tell this account group will accept uncle
Then link the uncle in the happy family that is determination procedure of SAP along with the 4
Then assign happy family to the account group
Now when you create a CMR along with father.mother,brother,sister along with that uncle will also come
Regards
Raja

Partner Determination in PO and OBDLV

Hey @ all,
what I am trying to do right now is to implement a simple, customer specific partner determination procedure. For that I want to add a partner role and partner to an purchase order on header level.
The only place I found where I could add this partner is in BAPI_PO_CREATE1. But this BAPI is not used when I create a PO with the GUI (ME21N).
So do you have an idea, where I could add a an additional partner to the PO (User-Exit, Badi, Enhancement Spot ...)?
The same thing I want to do with the outbound delivery (VL01N). There is User-Exit MV50AFZ1 available. But there is the question: How do I add a partner within this user exit (structures to edit...).
Thanks for you help in advance,
Rolf
Edited by: Rolf Kasel on Mar 10, 2010 1:57 PM

Hi,
   If its specific to plant and vendor, then check whether the plant specific partner function has been activated.
   Go to MK02 - partner function and go to menu - extras - Add. purchasing data and check whether "Data retent. at plant level allowed" flag is marked as shown below.
   If so, go to menu - extras - Alternative data.
Click on partner details:
Here, system will show plant specific partners.
   Here, maintain the partner function PI for the plant and check the scenario again.
Another option would be to maintain the higher level search flag in the partner function configuration as highlighted below:
   Now, system will search partners at purchase organization level, if no partner function is found at plant level.
Regards,
AKPT

CRM 7.0 in partner determination procedure

Dear all,
In CRM 7.0 in partner determination procedure for an ITEM level am unable to set up procedure so that any partner will always be just mirror of the partner set on HEADER level.
This functionality works only when the new order is created, then when changing the partner on HEADER level the partner on ITEM level partner is dynamically changed a according to HEADER.
When changing the order later u2013 HEADER partner is changed, but the ITEM partner stays the same and had to be changed manually. If an ITEM partner is not changed manually an error is raised while transferring to ERP (because of customizing settings there). Partner determination procedure in customizing is set for ITEM to display all the partners defined in CRM (no only for defined in the particular procedure). I would basically need the ITEM partners to be always the same as HEADER partners no matter what operations are done in the HEADER is must be 1:1 with ITEM (automatically copied when creating/changing).
I know that we can use ABAP development, but if possible I would like to use just customizing tools.
Many thanks for your comments

Hello Guys,
thanks for your reply. The issue was that the system was copying the partners from header to item even if in customizing I had set up the item det. procedure so only basic partners like SP or Bill to shall be present. In our scenario the user has to change header partners from time to time. Before upgrade (version 4.0) if the user changed the partner header and this partner was also at item level the system changed this also so header partners were equal to item partners. After upgrade this functionality disappeared (I have checked user exits and did not find any cutomer dev.)
At current CRM 7.0 if the header partner is changed item partners stays the same. And this can causing the troubles in R/3 due to settings of partner determination. To make it shorter. If you need to change the BDoc after it has been created by CRM use class if_ex_crm_dataexchg_badi~crm_dataexch_after_mbdoc_fill.
Regards
Radim

Partner determination sold to party and ship to party.

Hi frnds,
Currently in the customer master in partner function we are maintaining ship to party the same as sold to party , now for some of the customer the ship to party and sold to party are different , so while creating a sales when i enter the sold to party , the system propose the ship to party and on that basis the delivery and billing should take place.
What are the configuration settings required to be done to this , i will maintain the ship to party in customer master partner determaination, but when i create the sales order and when i enter the sold to party , it should propse the ship

Hi Rakesh,
As per SAP standard setting ship to party will be determined from Sold to party master , if that is maintained. I suggest to copy Standard and test again.
Also ,hope you have not made any changes to the partner determination procedure fro Sales Document at header Level. This will also impact .
Sharing a few useful link for more clarity :--
http://www.freesaptutorial.com/partner-determination-in-sap-sd/
Re: Ship-to party is not assigned to a sold-to party
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/sd/steps-for-partner-determination-config-in-img.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm40/helpdata/en/3c/92ecee484a11d5980800a0c9306667/content.htm
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/howtogetship-topartyforasoldto+party
Thanks/Rajesh

Partner determination at shipment stage level

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