RE:Business partner functions in customer Master creation

Do we need to send the Business partner functions while creating record in R3 thru MDM.
For any account group i pass the Idoc is expecting all Business partner functions to be defined for the account group to which am trying to create Customer.(As SH,BP,PY..)
Can anyone please explain me in brief the Business partner function -Problem in my scenerio............................Concept of  Business Partner function while creating Customer.

In ECC partner functions are used when you have multiple addresses for the same customer.  The partner function links those address records together.  You could have multiple unique customer numbers on the KNA1 table, but in the KNVVP table (partner functions) you maintain the linkage between the main table records. 
Partner functions are not recommended in MDM.  These are generally not considered to be "enterprise level attributes" and therefore shouldn't reside in your customer repository in a central create scenario.  Additionally, some of the complexity required to model partner functions can't be modeled in MDM at this time.  When 7.1 comes out, there is a new data type called "tuples" which supports deeply nested structures, and therefore you could model a true partner function table inside the sales area table.

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    Hi Alex,
    Could you specify what error message you are getting?
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  • Account Group and partner functions in customer master records

    Hi Gurus,
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    2. To create the above, it cannot be achieved by just assigning the partner functions in the partner function tab of SOLD-To customer master record , created using account group 0001.
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    1. How does the system know or allow what codes a user can select (f4) or enter manually when defining in customer master record's partner function tab, the partner functions and their respective codes?
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    hi russo,
    this is to inform you that,
    1. yes you are right.
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    That a customer master has several business partners is just usual, a customer can have as well several company codes and sales areas. So where exactly is the problem?
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    Hi,
    No you should not feel confident with SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL.
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    There exists other cases, one of the oldest one is the BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1. But is is exclusively reserved for SAP Online store.
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    Below ECC 2005 (6.00), the only solution was batch input and DEBMAS idocs. See note 384462
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  • How to update partner functions in customer master

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    Hi A.Rathinaprakash,
    Please use the FM 'SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL' to maintain the partner functions in the customer.
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  • Add partner functions to customer master

    Hello,
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    Alex

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    It is used for only one very special case. The maintenance of consumer. And this should only be true from the transaction itself.
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    There are some functions modules like the one above where the name is looking nice. But these should not be used.
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    Starting with ECC 2005 (6.00) and above: a synchronisation tool has been introduce. See class CMD_EI_API and VMD_EI_API
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  • Partner functions in Customer master

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  • BAPI to Retrive the Partner Function in Customer Master

    Dear All,
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    Hi,
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    Hi
    We have customized our system in order to trigger the creation of Business Partner whenever a Customer Master is created.
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    Hi,
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    Hi friends,
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