regd partner determination in sales documents

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

I have a situation like this. A Customer master whose Account group Z010 has Partner determination procedure as 'AG'. This is having multiple Payers. When a contract is created with SOld to Party of above Account group, system prompts to select a single payer from the list of payers available for the sold to party.

Is it possible to have multiple payers when the contract is entered. The Partner determination procedure is 'TA' here. The same partner determination procedure is used for Sales order as well. When a Sales order is created with reference to contract, payer is getting copied from contract. But the payer can be modified and selected from one of the payers maintained for the customer master. So if we look at it this way, if all the payers maintained in the customer master if they can reflect in the Contract as well it will be helpful. Also when the sales order is created with ref to contract then the system should prompt to select a single payer from the list of payers available in the contract. Can this requirement be met.

Can someone please suggest.

Regards,

SNK.

[rahul_vishwakarma2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Friend,

   In Transaction Code: VTAA , check the Copying requirement Field, It should be "002" i.e Header Different Customer. Hope this will Solve your Issue.

Regards,

Kundan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

When I create a contract and enter the sold to party, system prompts to select a single payer. The sold to party has multiple payers maintained in the customer master. We want all the payers to be available in the contract instead of having only one payer. Is this possible. That's the main question I have.

Can you please suggest.

Regards,

SNK.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I dont think this can be be done through standard. Because each contract is similar to sales document.

In header of contract or sales document only one partner can be assigned for each partner function.

So adding two or more time payer or any partner against same partner function, in contract or any of the sales docuemnt not possible to standard.

Regards,

Karthik.

[former_member182378]

SAP,

Probably your requirement "goes against the business rules".

In a contract, a payer is assigned.

In the subsequent documents too the same payer should continue.

And finally this payer should pay to the company.

When a document has multiple payers, then how does the system interpret which payer shall actually pay?

Therefore at document level, there is only one payer.

Why does the business / company need the option to select the payer at the sales order stage; when the payer has already been chosen at the contract stage?

[Former Member]

Further to TW's advice, there are user exits that you can review.  One last thing I can remember that in the IS for the Textile Industry that partner could be adjusted in the SO.  So maybe a quick message to SAP may help your client.

Regards

Waza

[Former Member]

TW,

Thanks for the inputs.

I understand what you are saying. The client has a broad agreement with a customer where they create a Contract against one Sold to Party. Subsequently they create several sales orders which have different payers.

Regards,
SNK.

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Thank you for the replies. They are very helpful. I have advised the client that standard SAP does not provide this functionality.

Regards,
SNK.

[former_member184555]

Hi

As the same partner determination procedure is used for both contract and sales order...and as the sold to is same for both the cases...you are supposed to get the same list of payers in the F4 possible entries. Did you try to change the payer in the 'Partners' tab at header or item level?

Regards,

Ravi Sankar

[former_member182378]

Ravi,

When a new sales order is created (without reference), after the SP customer is given, if there are multiple customer numbers for a partner function, then a popup with all the choices appears.

But if user wants to see the customer numbers for a partner function with F4, (there are different selection criteria) the options that appear are not restricted to the SP customer.

In other words, the popup during creation of a sales order has different options (customer numbers) than the popup with F4.

Please test it and give your comments.

[Former Member]

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[former_member186385]

Hi,

In the copy control VTAA from Contract to Order , in Header

can you change the copying requirement as highlighted below to 002 and try

regards,

santosh