Output determination for Customer Account group - A brain teaser

[Former Member]

At the place of configuration for Account groups, there is a field called Output Determination which has values like DB001, DB002 etc which says output for sold to, ship to and so on...

What is the purpose of maintaining output determination procedure at the account group level?

And also, where can i do the complete output determination for it? Like i could see Output determination for sales activities, sales documents, billing documents and shipping...But no where in the img screen, i found a place where i can configure these? Any ideas?

[Former Member]

In SAP, we send different output types(read documents) for Inquiries, quotations, orders etc. to relevant partners (read contact persons) sold-to party, ship-to party etc. thru various transmission mediums like ex. Print, Fax, e-mail etc.

Output can be determined by using component output determination procedure. System should know from where the output is to be determined whether from IMG or from customer A/C group. This is depended upon the control that we can activate or deactivate in "Check access for condition type" in definition of the output type (T.Code: NV03)

Output Determination:

IMG > Sales and Distribution > Basic Functions > Output Control > Output Determination Output Determination Using the Condition Technique > Maintain Output Determination for Sales activities/ Sales Documents etc.

Regards

AK

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[Former Member]

Thanks, I understood your answer. But, where will i maintain if I want to maintain more values for the output determination procedure on the customer account group. Currently, my system has output determination for Sold to, ship to, Bill to and payer. For example, I have a new Z account group ZXXX and want to maintain its own output determination procedure for it, where can i do that?

Thanks for your reply in advance.

[Former Member]

This ZXXX account group is it a copy of any account group or it is newly created.

If it is a copy of the sold to party, ship to party etc. assign DB0001, DB0002 etc.

If suppose it is not one of the basic 4 partner functions then you don't assign any output determination. The output determination will be determined by the functionality of the partner function and where it is used sales activity, sales document etc.

Regards

AK

[Former Member]

Just to add to this, can you just let me know that no custom output determinations like for eg. DB009 can be created in SAP thru img for a Z customer?

Yeah, I understood that i can assign DB001 in case i use a zcustomer whcih is created by copying a Sold to Customer....Thanks for that, that was really helpful.