Partner roles in Vendor master record

[Former Member]

Hi all

can some one explain me how to enter the partner roles in vendor master record

In sap help i didnt understood this point

"When working with partner roles, you must maintain the following settings:

Separate vendor master records must exist for all the partners of a vendor that are to be entered in that vendor’s master record."

what does it mean

suppose i am creating vendor master record 1234

Vendor master record:1234

LF 1234 /*vendor

BA1234 /*ordering address

i have to click 1234 in BA and select 'parner' at the top to enter the ordering adress right ...

what is the 'Separate vendor master records must exist for all the partners' mean

it has to be like this?

Vendor master record:1234

LF 1234 /*vendor

BA1235 /*ordering address

1235 vendor master record is created earlier and ordering address maintained ??

please help me in this record, any user manual or some screen shots to explain how to maintain partner roles in vendor master record

regards

Bhushan.N

[Former Member]

Hi Sasi ,

What Ramkrishna explained is correct. I will try to illustrate it with the example.

Suppose you are creating a vendor 1234 which is Head office of the supplier where you need to place the order. But goods will be supplied from Pune plant so you should enter 1235 againts partner function GS , here 1235 is seperate vendor master record with Pune plant details & it must exist in the system so that you can use it as a partner function Hope this has cleared your doubts.

Similarly you vcan create other partner functions like payee,ordering party etc.

Regards,

Anand

[Former Member]

Hi Anand

please rectify me if i am wrong

Suppose u have a vendor 1234 (head office,pune), goods will be supplied from pune

for ordering adress which will be issued from delhi, we created another vendor master record 1235 ..

So when creating vendor master record 1234, we enter partner roles like this

LF 1234 /*vendor

BA 1235 /*ordering adress

GS 1234 /*goods issue

we mention the material and vendor '1234' in PO, which pulls the adress from 1235 master record

was that right?

regards

Bhushan.N

[Former Member]

Hi Bhushan N ,

Yes you are right.

[Ramki]

Hi Sasi

Both the examples given by you are right.

In the first one, you do not need to create another vendor master.

In the second one, you shd have create 1235.

For some vendors, it is required. Your vendor & ordering address may be in Mumbai, goods supplier(GS) may be from Nashik. In this case, VN & OA will be same vendor code but GS will be a different vendor code. There are standard account groups also for ordering address, goods supplier etc.

Best regards

Ramki