SAP SD Partner Origin Partner Determination in Sales and Distribution

Use

When creating sales documents and sales activities, the business partner is automatically copied from the customer master in the standard system. Here the system takes the sold-to party from the customer master.

If you do not want the business partners to be taken from the sold-to party master record but want another partner function to be taken from the customer master record, you can set this up in Customizing.

Activities

You can make these settings in the implementation guide (IMG) for sales and distribution under Basic functions ® Partner Determination ® Define and assign partner determination procedures. There you will further information in the documentation.

Example

You work together with fixed vendors in the different regions. Therefore you want the forwarding agent in the sales document to be determined in relation to the ship-to party and not the sold-to party.

First of all ensure in Customizing that the ship-to party is determined from the sold-to party master record. The system then uses the ship-to party master record to determine the forwarding agent.