Assigning Partner Functions to the Account Group in SAP S/4 HANA for Intercompany Purchasing in Integration Hub

Assigning Partner Functions to the Account Group in SAP S/4 HANA for Intercompany Purchasing in Integration Hub

Define partner functions for the customer account group. The account group is a classifying feature in customer master records. It determines the number range of a customer account number, whether the user or the system assigns the number, and which maintenance user interfaces and fields are necessary or possible in the master record. Assign your previously created partner function to your preferred customer account groups.

Prerequisites

You have determined the account group you want to use to create the “dummy 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 in 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. Select Partner functions. and from the menu, choose Environment  Acct grp assignment.
  2. In the Maintain: Allowed partner functions per account group 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.

Acct group

<Account group key> 

Example: DEBI, KUNA

This is the account group for the customer master data for which you create the “dummy customer”.

Contact the person responsible for the master data maintenance in the SAP S/4 HANA system to determine an account group. It must later be possible to process the customer record in sales order and delivery processing.

  1. Save your settings.