Assigning Partner Functions to Partner Procedures – Customer in SAP S/4 HANA for Intercompany Purchasing in Integration Hub

Assigning Partner Functions to Partner Procedures – Customer in SAP S/4 HANA for Intercompany Purchasing in Integration Hub

Assign partner functions to partner procedures. Partner procedures specify the allowed partner functions for a business transaction, for example, processing a customer master record. They also specify mandatory partner functions. 

Assign your previously created partner functions to the partner procedures. The partner procedures must have an assignment to the account group for which you want to create the subsidiary customer record.

If you want to assign the “dummy customer” to the subsidiary customer in the ZH partner function, assign this partner function to the partner procedure that is relevant for the account group for which the subsidiary customer record is created. 

Prerequisites

You have checked the partner procedure assigned to the account group for which you have created the subsidiary customer record.

Procedure

  1. From the IMG menu, choose Sales and Distribution  Basic Functions  Partner Determination  Set Up Partner Determination.

Alternatively, call the VOPA transaction.

If you access the partner function maintenance using the transaction code, access differs from the one using the IMG path. The following description ins based on the access using the transaction code.

  1. In the Maintain: Partner Determin. window, enter the following:

Field Name

Field Value

Description

Customer

Select radio button in the Partner object section.


  1. Choose Partner Procedures and in the Maintain: Partner Procedures Customer Master window, select your partner procedure, which is assigned to the account group of the subsidiary customer record, for example, AG Sold-to Party.
  2. Choose Procedure details and in the Maintain: Procedures Details <name of procedure> - Customer Master window, enter the following:

Field Name

Field Value

Description

Funct

<Partner function key> 

Example: ZH

This is the partner function for the dummy customer record.

It allows storing the SAP Business One end customer ship-to address in the SAP S/4 HANA sales order processing.

  1. Save your settings.

Note

To create a new partner function assignment, place your cursor in an existing partner function line and overwrite the existing values. When you save your settings, the system creates an additional line, without deleting the existing line.