What is the Use of Partner Functions in VM?

Hi,
Can someone tell what is the exact use of the Partner Functions (VN, OA, IP,GS etc) maintained in the Partner Function view of Vendor Master? Where exactly are these used?
PO, GR, Inv, Vend Payment all can be done without maintaining the Partner Functions in VM then why do we need these to be maintained?
What will happen if we enter different Vendor #'s for differet Partner Functions in VM e.g. 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004 against for VN, OA, IP, GS?
Thanks.

if you are doing business with global players, then your vendor is e.g. located in Belgium, but you might order at a sales office in your country, so this sales office need to be created as vendor and you assign this vendor as OA order adress to the venor master of your Belgium vendor.
The material is then send from a plant in Great Britain, thus this will become the GS partner, that is needed for trade reporting in European Union.
The invoice is send from the Business Service company of your vendor, this is then partner role PI invocie presenter.
if you have more than one vendor for the same role, then the buyers will get pop-ups to choose the right one for the PO.

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