Prevent assigning vendor to a forwarding agent

Hi all,
Is there a standard way to prevent assigning a vendor (account group 0001) as a forwarding agent on a delivery?
Users should only be able to assign those defined as a forwarding agent (account group 0005).
Thanks

You can make the check using user exit USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE or USEREXIT_SAVE_DOC_BEFORE_PREP (in include MV50AFZ1). I am not sure whether any standard configuration settings can do this check.
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At what level this is happening in sales order either @ Header or Item level.
- Re-check in Tx:VOPA - assigned partner determination procedure.
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then use the partner fuction : CR - Forwarding agent - partner type (LI - as mentioned)
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I appreciate your reply in this regard. Shipment costs are deleted from transaction VT11. Now I've few concerns:
1. Whether or not VT11 deletes/reverses the process like cancellation, account assignment deletion etc. and resets the status in Shipment Document in Shipment costs calculation tab as 'A'.
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create a vendor with XK01 with the required Forwardng Agent. At the time of creating customer master record assing this FA. Now at the time of sales order creation this FA is defaulted automatically.
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Your Forwarding agent FA should be a vendor (lets say V3).You created two POs with vendors V1 and V2 and during PO creation, you should assign Freight condition types to V3 for both POu2019s.
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Ideally speaking you have to enable shipment cost in order to settle the cost to the transporter.
However if you decide not to enable this, you have to do this by means of MM process.
The forwarding agent should be created as a vendor in MM.
Once in a month, you have to calculate the total freight to be paid to him by finding out the summation of the freight condition type in the sales invoices.
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Create a Credit Memo request using forwarding agent as the payer (in this case you have to create the forwarding agent as a customer account group)
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SO Creation by Customer (Freight charge will be included in SO pricing)
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