SAP SD Partner Control Partner Determination in Sales and Distribution

Implementation Options

To ensure that in sales and distribution processing in the R/3 system the right partner is automatically set up with the required function in the document, several settings are necessary, and you should set these up accordingly in the structures for your partner relationships.

There is a control function in Customizing for Sales and Distribution for this purpose. This will be looked at in more detail in the following sections.

Detailed information on how to make these settings in Customizing can be found in the implementation guide (IMG) for sales and distribution under Basic functions ® Partner determination.

Process Flow

The process for partner determination activities is generally as follows:

1. You define partner functions for the different tasks, which the business partners in your company generally carry out in the sales and distribution process.
2. You put several partner functions together into partner procedures and assign these to the document types.
3. You assign business partner functions on the debit side (partner type Customer) to an account group.