[sap-log-mm] Partner determination in Vendor Master and Purchasing Document

Posted by Sap Land Monday, 20 June 2011 03:42

Posted by kalyan (MM Consultant)
on Jun 20 at 6:49 AM

Dear
1_When the Partner schema determination is really required in a Business
2_Under which Scenarios, Partner determination in Vendor is used.
3_Under which Scenarios, Partner determination in Purchasing Document is used.
4_Whether Both has to be done parallelly to get the desired output

I performed the following activities, considering my business requirement as My Ordering address is different than the Vendor Used in PO. But the Invoice Party same as Vendor.

Account groups
* Created a New Account group with external Number range assignment
* Assigned a permissible partner roles to this New Account group

Partner Roles
* In the partner settings for Vendor master Record,
I used the existing Partner Schema L1 [Vendor], . Later Assigned this Partner schema L1 [Vendor] in the field PSEKORG against this New Account group only.

* Created a Vendor [A0123] Master with the New Account group. All the Partner function assigned to the Account group gets copied. for me OA / VN / PI are the partner roles appeared. Notes. For me the OA vendor alone is different. For VN and PI, it is same as Vendor Master Number.

* In Partner Setting for Purchasing document, I Used a Existing partner Schema by 0002 and Assigned the Partner Schema to the Purchasing document types.

* Created a PO with this Vendor {A0123], All the partner Roles [ Or Partner Functions] gets copied from Vend Master, ie like OA with different vendor [A0124], VN [A0123] and PI [A0123].

Since my intention of Following the above steps, is for making the Ordering address to different Vendor than the Vendor used in PO. Now How / Where can i confirm that system settings done as per above are correct or Not.

Please, I dont know how this Partner determination works...Also if my Invoice Party is different than the Vendor, then How / Where can I confirm that system settings done as per above are correct or Not.

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