PO vendor partner role through ALE/IDOCs

Question

We have ALE/IDOC interface with vendor. The requirement is PO will be sent to the ordering vendor and invoice should be received with PI vendor. We are using stardard message types for purchase order (outbound) and INVOIC (inbound).
Could you please guide me on how to set up partner profile in WE20? Do I need to define both the vendors as partner? and what partner function should I select in inbound and outbound for both the vendor? Any other settings is required?
Thanks in Advance
Sagar

Answer 1

Hi,
The earlier answer was to your this question
Could you please guide me on how to set up partner profile in WE20?
Now to set up the partner function follow as below
In Spro>Purchasing>partner determination >first define the partner roles , role VN for vendor,role PI for invoicing party and OA ordering address are standard available then
Define permissible roles per Vendor A/C group ..based on account group of vendor you need to define a perticular partner role is permitted
Go to define partner schmeas for vendor master >select L1 vendor>partner functions in procedure>here you check your roles are available there 2 check boxes if you wnat a perticular role mandatory in vendor master you can check mandatory and if you want an option of changing the partner you can make it changable , better to make these two roles mandatory and OA changable
Go to assign partner schemas for vendor master assign L1 for your vendor a/c group
Then go to partner settings in purchasing document define partner schema select std.po >function in procedure>check roles VN,PI,OA
Select no change mandatory and higher level for all three
Go to assign schemas for docuemt>assign 0002 for document type in question
Thanks
Diwakar
Edited by: diwakarnd deshpande on May 13, 2011 8:24 PM