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

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    Dear experts,
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    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,
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  • Partner determination at plant level

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    Hi,
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  • Block Partner determination at Item level

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    Hello Reddy,
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  • Partner Determination/Organization Structure

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    <b>"please REWARD the points "</b> if it helps..!!

  • Partner determination at shipment stage level

    Dear All,
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    Best Regards
    Dinesh

    Hi,
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    Regards,
    Prasanna

  • Line Item Level Partner Determination

    Is it possible to determine line item level payee partner based on product.
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    Hi Mike,
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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,
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    reward if helpful
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  • "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
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    Dear SR
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    2. Create the new determination procedure
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    4. Assign the new  determination procedure to the document type or account group at appropriate level
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    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.
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    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...).
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    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.
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       Here, maintain the partner function PI for the plant and check the scenario again.
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       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 Problem in Sale Order..

    Dear Gurus,
    Sold-to Party : 6
    Shipt-to Party  : 7,8
    When creating a sales order when I go for selecting a ship to party , in my case the Sold-to party has multiple ship to parties, then the system gives me this message
    Top node 6 for ship to 7 not maintained / ship to is not
    valid
    Message no. 8W 321
    Diagnosis
    The top node check is activated in Customizing.
    Note:
    SP is created by using the account group : 0001
    SH is created by using the account group : 0002
    I couldn't be able to find where i made a mistake.
    Thanks & Regards,
    Venkatesh.S.P.

    Dear Venkatesh,
    Please go to Partner determination in the IMG >Sales and Distribution>Basic functions then go to Set Up Partner Determination for Customer here again you select your partner determination procedure then click on partner functions in procedure now system will Change view of the "Partner functions in procedure " screen here you remove the check in the Not modifiable check box for the Ship to party,Bill to party and payer partner functions.
    Not modifiable check mark keep only for SP partner function.
    Do the same process at all levels
    Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document
    Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document
    Set Up Partner Determination for Delivery      
    Set Up Partner Determination for Billing Header
    Set Up Partner Determination for Billing Item  
    I hope this will help you,
    Regards,
    Murali.

  • Item Partner Indicator at Item level

    Hi,
    We have two item in sales order.For second item user make following changes,
    Requirements type changed
    MRP area changed
    Business Area changed
    Material Number changed
    Checking Group for Availability Check changed
    Net price changed
    Profit Center changed
    Tax classification material changed
    Shipping Point/Receiving Point changed
    Plant (Own or External) changed
    He has not done any changes in Partner Tab at Item level,then also indicator has been set for Item Partners.
    He has not done any changes at Header Partners too.
    Could you please help how this indicator has been set even he has not done any change in Partner TAB.
    Is this indicator depends on other item level fields in sales order?
    Thanks,
    Lalit

    In VA02, after entering the sales order number, go to menu Environment ->changes. Here you can find the details on whether the item partner has been changed by the users or not. Alternatively you can execute t.code  AUT10 and check the change details. If the partner is changed manually (even address changes made), then the flag item partner is checked by the system.
    For further details read OSS Note 380507 - SD partner determination: FAQ for the functions -POINT 2
    Regards,

  • Modify Partner Function from Header level to Item level

    Hello experts,
    A help please!!!
    Scenery:
    I need to have: - When I create a Sales Order, I can have differents Carrier Partner Fuction for each line.
    Currently we have a Partner Function (Carrier) defined at Header Level.
    I need to modify it in order to have a Carrier Partner at Item Header.
    Many Thanks all,
    Barbara

    Hello Barbara,
    Go to SPRO - SD - Basic Functions - Partner Determination - Set Up Partner Determination -
    Select - Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document Header
    Select TA - Standard Order & select "Partner Functions in Procedure" from left side.
    Go to the Partner Function of Carrer & make sure that there is NO TICK MARK in the "Not Modifiable" check box. (This will let you change the Carrier at Header level also, if required.
    Go to SPRO - SD - Basic Functions - Partner Determination - Set Up Partner Determination -
    Select - Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document Item
    Select N - Standard Item & Select "Partner Functions in Procedure" from left side.
    Go to New Entries & Enter Carrier Partner Function & make sure that there is NO TICK MARK in the "Not Modifiable" check box. This will let you change the Carrier at Item level.
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    Thanks,
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