Using Partner Role in PO

Hello
I have this situation:
I defined permissible partner roles per account group and partner schema and assign it to an account group (I did all the customizing). I am creating a PO and the system doesnt show me all the partner roles that I assigned to the vendor. I would like to know where the problem is.
Also I want to create a Condition Type using the partner roles; I extended the field catalog for condition table assigning the fields WTY_V_PARVW and WTY_V_PARNR (Partner Role and Partner), then I create a table using one of those fields and the system can not generate properly the table, the message is: 859 Foreign key cannot be created for the selected field A996-WTY_V_PARVW. Somebody knows what the problem is.
Thank you in advance
Eliza

Hi Shobana
Thank you, I already did it. I also found the problem, It is that the Partner role must be mandatory and then they will appear automaticaly.
I continue with the problem in the price shema. I want to use the partner role in the price schema
Bets Regards

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when I try to copy a PO item into a new PO using a different vendor, I get an error message:
Reference vendor 20003681 differs from vendor 20004972
Message no. 06030
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"When working with partner roles, you must maintain the following settings:
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What Ramkrishna explained is correct. I will try to illustrate it with the example.
Suppose you are creating a vendor 1234 which is Head office of the supplier where you need to place the order. But goods will be supplied from Pune plant so you should enter 1235 againts partner function GS , here 1235 is seperate vendor master record with Pune plant details & it must exist in the system so that you can use it as a partner function Hope this has cleared your doubts.
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Vendor Account Group
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