Customer as partner in purchase orders

[Former Member]

Experts,

When I try to link a customer parnter function in an MM partner schema I get the following message:

Cannot use this partner role

Message no. CZ327

Diagnosis

The partner role types you can use in partner maintenance for the Vendor

Master, Purchasing, and Arrangements areas are limited to 'LI' (Vendor)

and 'PE' (HR Master Record), plus, in Retail Industry systems only, 'AP'

(Contact Person).

I understand from this that a customer is not allowed as partner in MM.

Is there any (standard!) way to overcome this? Functionally I need this link and this means I have to setup all customers also as vendor.

Thanks for the feedback!

Jan

[Former Member]

Jürgen,

The customer XYZ is entered manually as partner in the PO. This is the same manual effort as you would do it in a text field, but in a text field you have a big chance of typo's.

We prefer to not put customer/vendor/material/... numbers as texts.

But to be honest, I don't think this is the forum to have functional dicussions on our project. I can not reduce the complexity of our project in 1 or 2 sentences and have you understand the full context.

So just to set my question clear: does anyone knows a way to add customers as partners in a PO?

Thanks,

Jan

[Former Member]

Hello~I have the same question. Did you get any solution yet?

If yes, please help. Thank you.

[JL23]

is your problem in the same scenario ?

[Former Member]

Jeyakanthan A , lakshmi reddy,

Thanks but I already suggested this solution in my question. This is how we have to solve it now but it means additional master data.

Jürgen L.,

I need it in stock transfer orders, the customer is in fact the end-user who will receive the goods (we sell it from the plant where the goods are shipped to). We need the customer (end-user) in the outbound delivery for batch determination.

No, we can not add that customer in the outbound delivery. This is created by another department.

Jan

[JL23]

a stock transport order is used to replenish stock in a plant A from plant B.

This has nothing really to do with external customers.

I can understand that you want send all materials to a customer from a single plant.

As this plant has no stock you need to get it from a different plant.

The process chain usually starts with a sales order for customer XYZ with delivery from plant A.

MRP run determines that you have no stock and creates a PR to get the stock from plant B (according to special procurement key set in material master).

PR is converted to PO.

Plant B creates delivery in reference to the PO.

Plant A receives the material.

Now customer service has to do back order processing to allocate the received quantity to the open order.

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How would you get the customer XYZ into POs partner screen? Manually, as the PO (STO) has no relation to the customer order.

What does this partner function tell you? and to whom? .You would need to build a process, probably extra programming to retrieve this partner info.

Why dont you maintain it as text in the PO ? With copy routines you can get texts from PO to delivery, and from delivery onto the delivery note. And from delivery note into the mind of the receiver.

[Former Member]

Hi,

you can maintain a customer as a vendor and vendor as a customer in creating mater records of vendor & customer

at vendor creation and customer creation

lakshmi reddy

[JL23]

what is the business scenario? why do you need a customer as partner?

[former_member187989]

Create vendor same as customer,Maintain vendor code in General data tab -- > control data---> Vendor