| # Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) Use this session to maintain the details of a buy-from business partner. These details include: Price agreements Shipping conditions The link with the invoice-from business partner. Related topics Business partners General Buy-from Business Partner The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, terms of delivery, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner. Name The person 's name or the company's name. Status Business Partner Status Indicates the actions that can be carried out for the business partner. The status can be: Active, Inactive, or Potential. For example, you cannot enter a sales order for a business partner with status Potential, or ship goods to a business partner with status Inactive. If there are outstanding sales orders or open invoices for the business partner, you cannot change the status from Active to Potential. Allowed values Business Partner Status Related topics Business partner status From The date and time when this status takes effect. If you leave this field empty, the status takes effect immediately. To The expiry date and time of the business-partner status. Leave this field empty if the status must continue. General Language The language used for documents addressed to the business partner. If no document is available in this language, the document in the company language is used. Related topics To print external documents in other languages Area The area in which the buy-from business partner is established. Line of Business The buy-from business partner's line of business. This information is used as a sorting criterion for the purchase statistics. Business Partner Signal If you select a signal here, the signal message is displayed when you enter the business-partner code in a LN session. Related topics To use signals Business Partner Type A way to group business partners with similar characteristics, for example, members of the EU, or subject to specific customs rules. Note A business-partner type is not the same as a business-partner role or financial business-partner group. Related topics To print external documents in other languages Vendor Rating If you want to apply vendor rating to the business partner, select this check box. Business Partner for Statistics Update The business partner for which LN updates the statistics in Order Management with transactions from the current business partner. For example, you can enter the parent business partner. If this field is empty, LN updates the statistics for the current business partner. Related topics Statistics Address Code The buy-from business partner's address. Calendar The business partner 's calendar. Contact The business partner's default contact. Related topics Business partner contacts Contact The contact's surname. Text If this check box is selected, a text is present. Pricing Rate Determiner The way in which LN determines the exchange rate that is used in purchase inquiries and purchase order headers. See Currency Rate Determiner Use Purchase Rates for Receipts If this check box is selected, LN uses purchase rate data for the debit side of the purchase order/receipt transaction. Related topics How LN handles purchase order/schedule rates Purchase Price List The price list used to link price and/or discount agreements to the business partner. These agreements can be overruled by other price agreements that you reach with a buy-from business partner. Order Discount The default order discount percentage that you apply to the business partner's purchase orders. Business Partner for Prices/Discounts Prices and discounts for purchase orders to the buy-from business partner must be based on the terms and conditions agreed with the business partner selected in this field. If you leave this field empty, LN applies the prices and discounts that you agreed with the buy-from business partner specified on the purchase order. Note This business partner must have the same parent business-partner as the buy-from business partner defined in this session. Purchasing Purchase Office The purchase office that LN uses by default for purchases from the buy-from business partner. If you define a purchase office as the enterprise unit's default purchase office in the Departments (tcemm1124m000) session, LN uses the enterprise unit's default purchase office for automatically generated purchase orders. Related topics Default purchase office Buyer The employee of your company responsible for contact with the buy-from business partner. Purchase Order Type The default purchase order type for the Purchase Order - Lines (tdpur4501m000) session. If you leave this field empty, LN takes the default order type from the Purchase User Profiles (tdpur0143m000) session. Our Customer Number The identification or code that the business partner uses for your organization. List Group The list group used to find the list item components when you buy a list item from this business partner. Print Purchase Order by Exception If this check box is selected, only those new and changed purchase order lines to which you assign a purchase acknowledgement code are printed on the purchase order. In this way you can control which changes to the purchase order lines are printed on the next purchase order. This accommodates buy-from business partners who wish to receive a printed purchase order in special cases only. For example, when you have changed the delivery date, item, or price. If this check box is cleared, purchase orders are printed for all order lines, regardless of the acknowledgement codes. Self-Billing If this check box is selected, self-billing is used by default for purchase orders that you issue to this buy-from business partner. Related topics Self billing Invoice After The stage at which purchases from the business partner can be paid for. Generate Release per Vehicle If this check box is selected, LN sends EDI messages for the releases of shipments sorted by end item instead of sorted by the supplied item. In the automotive industry, the vehicle is an end item. This check box is only relevant for sequence shipping schedules. This check box is the default setting for the business partner of the Generate Release per Vehicle check box in the Purchase Releases (tdpur3120m000) session. You can change the setting on the purchase release header. Related topics Pull call-off schedules Environmental Compliance Declared Worldwide, various regulations exist to limit the use of hazardous chemical substances in electronic equipment preventing environmental pollution. Companies, in most cases producers of electronic equipment, are legally required to: Set up and control compliancy rules. Verify whether purchased, engineered, manufactured, and serviced material is compliant. Verify whether their work processes are compliant. If this check box is selected, the business partner works in compliance with the regulations preventing environmental pollution. Item Cross Reference The default alternative way of communicating with the business partner about items. Note You can only set this field to MPN if the Manufacturer Part Numbers Implemented check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session. Allowed values Item Cross Reference Related topics To set up and use MPN items Use Confirmation If this check box is selected, ordered quantities must be confirmed by the customer. Therefore, the Confirmation Accepted check box must be selected before a purchase order or schedule can be released to Warehouse Management. Note This field is only visible if the Use Confirmation (Purchase) check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session. Shipping Terms of Delivery The terms of delivery agreed with the business partner. Related topics Terms of delivery Point of Title Passage The default point of title passage used for the business partner. Related topics Terms of delivery Return Terms of Delivery The terms of delivery agreed with the business partner concerning the delivery of goods in case of a return order. Ship-from Business Partner The default ship-from business partner that issues the goods that you buy from the buy-from business partner. Schedule Quantity Qualifier The types of quantities that are communicated to the supplier. Invoicing Invoice-from BP The invoice-from business partner from which you receive invoices connected with the purchase orders that you send to this buy-from business partner. Note One of the following must be true: The buy-from business partner and the invoice-from business partner have the same parent business partner. The buy-from business partner is the invoice-from business partner's parent. Invoice BP for Freight If this check box is selected, you charge the business partner for the freight costs of the goods that you purchased. Address... Starts the Addresses (tccom4130s000) session. Use this session to maintain or display the business partner's address details. If you have defined an address for the business partner, you can click this button. Contact... Starts the Contacts (tccom4140s000) session. Use this session to maintain or display the details of your contact at the business partner. If you have defined a contact for the business partner, you can click this button. Features... Starts the Features by Business Partner (tdsmi1101m000) session. Use this session to maintain or display the Feature definitions defined for the business partner. Delete Deletes all the business partner's details for this role. Contacts with this role are also deleted. You can delete a business partner if all of the following amounts are zero: The business partner's order balance The business partner's invoices balance The business partner's open billing requests amount Vendor Ratings Starts the Vendor Ratings by Period (tdpur8102m000) session, which you can use to display vendor ratings. |