| # Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4110s000) Use this session to maintain the details of a sold-to business partner. This includes: The price agreements The shipping conditions The link with the invoice-to business partner. Related topics Business partners General Sold-to Business Partner Usually a customer's purchase department, the business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, that owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project. Details of the agreement with the sold-to business partner can include the following: Default price and discount agreements Sales order defaults Terms of delivery The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner 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. Related topics Business partner status To The expiry date and time of the business partner's status. If you leave this field empty, the status continues. Related topics Business partner status 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 sold-to business partner is established. Line of Business The sold-to business partner's line of business, which is used as a sorting criterion for the sales statistics. Business Partner Signal If you select a signal here, the signal message is displayed when you enter the business-partner code in a ERP 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. Business Partner for Statistics Update The business partner for which ERP 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, ERP LN updates the statistics for the current business partner. Related topics Statistics Address Code The sold-to business partner's address. Address The sold-to 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. Response Time The response time you have agreed with the business partner. Service uses the data in the Response Time field and the Priority field to calculate the urgency of a business partner's call. Related topics Priorities Priority The priority for Service that is assigned to the business partner. Service uses the data in the Response Time field and the Priority field to calculate the urgency of a business partner's call. Note Specify the priority for the Sales Control module and Warehouse Management on the Shipping tab. Related topics Priorities Creation Date The date and time at which the business partner was defined. Text If this check box is selected, a text is present. Pricing Pricing Rate Determiner The way in which the exchange rate is determined that ERP LN uses to convert the transaction currency into the local and reporting currencies. Related topics Currency Rate Determiner Sales Price List The price list that is used to link price agreements and/or discount agreements to the business partner. Price List for Direct Delivery The price list used in case of direct deliveries to the business partner. If an order line refers to a direct delivery, ERP LN consults these agreements. Order Discount The business partner's default order discount percentage applied to sales orders. Upper Margin The percentage that the actual sales price is allowed to exceed the cost price. The upper and lower margins enable you to monitor sales by using gross margins. Specifying upper and lower margins only has an effect if you select at least one of the following parameters in the Margin Control Parameters (tdsls0120m000) session: Signal Log Block Lower Margin The percentage that the actual sales price is allowed to be lower than the cost price. The upper and lower margins enable you to monitor sales using gross margins. Specifying upper and lower margins only has an effect if you select at least one of the following parameters in the Margin Control Parameters (tdsls0120m000) session: Signal Log Block Business Partner for Prices/Discounts The business partner for prices and discounts. You base prices and discounts for sales orders by the sold-to business partner on the terms and conditions that you agree with the business partner that you select here. If you leave this field empty, you use the prices and discounts that you have agreed with the sold-to business partner specified on the sales order. Note This business partner must have the same parent business-partner as the sold-to business partner defined in this session. Calculate Additional Costs For Define whether additional costs are calculated during the sales order procedure or the shipment procedure for the sold-to business partner. Allowed values Calculate Additional Costs For Related topics Additional costs for sales orders and schedules Promotions Eligible for Promotion If this check box is selected, The business partner is eligible for a promotion. You can define promotions in the Promotions (tdpcg0140m000) session. ERP LN applies promotion automatically if the Apply Automatic Promotions check box is selected. Apply Automatic Promotions If this check box is selected, and the Eligible for Promotion check box is selected, promotions are applied automatically to the sold-to business partner in the Sales Order Promotion Data Link (tdsls4536m000) session. Selling Sales Office The sales office responsible for sales to the sold-to business partner. Note If the business partner places an order in a different sales office, ERP LN issues a warning. Internal Sales Rep The employee of your company responsible for contact with the sold-to business partner. External Sales Rep Your company employee who calls on the sold-to business partner, mainly by visits. Sales Order Type The default sales order type for the Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session. If you leave this field empty, ERP LN takes the default order type from the Sales User Profiles (tdsls0139m000) session. Our Supplier 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 sell a list item to this business partner. Allow Alternative List Groups If this check box is selected, during sales-order line entry for the sold-to business partner you can select list items from the list group that is linked to the business partner as well as from other list groups. Channel The channel assigned to the business partner. This determines the quantity of goods that is available to promise for the business partner. Related topics Channel ATP EDI Order Change Response The type of electronic data interchange (EDI) message sent to the business partner when you change the order. Select Not Applicable for business partners that you have not set up for EDI in the Business Partner EDI Data by Network (ecedi0528m000) session. Acknowledge by Exception If you select this check box, only those new and changed sales-order lines to which you assign a sales-acknowledgement code are printed on the sales-order acknowledgement. In this way you can control which changes to the sales-order lines must be printed on the sales-order acknowledgement. This accommodates sold-to business partners who want to receive a printed sales-order acknowledgement in special cases only. For example, if you change the delivery date, item, and/or price. If you clear this check box, sales-order acknowledgements are printed for all order lines, regardless of the acknowledgement codes. Use Confirmation If this check box is selected, sold quantities must be confirmed by the supplier. Therefore, the Order Confirmation Date must be filled before a sales order can be approved or a sales schedule can be released to Warehouse Management. Note This field is only visible if the Use Confirmation (Sales) check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session. Self-Billing If this check box is selected, self-billing applies to the business partner. Related topics Self billing Shipping Shipping Constraint The default shipping constraint for the sold-to business partner. When you enter sales-order lines you can use this value or enter a different shipping constraint. Possible Values. Customer Priority The priority for shipments to the sold-to business partner. This priority is used in Sales Control and in Warehouse Management. A low number represents a high priority. A high number represents a low priority. 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. Schedule Quantity Qualifier The types of quantities that are communicated to the supplier. Automaticallly Process Sales Schedule Releases If this check box is selected, sales releases are automatically converted to sales schedules for this sold-to business partner. If this check box is cleared, sales releases must be converted to sales schedules in the Process Sales Releases (tdsls3208m000) session. You can update sales releases before they are converted to sales schedules. Related topics Sales releases Ship-to Business Partner The default ship-to business partner to which goods supplied to the sold-to business partner must be delivered. Allow Shipment of Multiple Alternative Items If this check box is selected, the sold-to business partner accepts the ordered item as well as alternative items in one shipment. For example, if insufficient quantity of the ordered item is available, the shipment can contain the available quantity of the ordered item and additional quantities of alternative items that are required to reach the ordered quantity. Invoicing Invoice-to BP The invoice-to business partner, to which you send invoices connected with the sales orders received from this sold-to business partner. Note One of the following must be true: The sold-to business partner and the invoice-to business partner have the same parent business partner. The sold-to business partner is the invoice-to 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 sold goods. Premium Handling If the business partner receives a premium, this is the way in which the premium appears on the invoice. Features... Starts the Features by Trade Relation (tdsmi1101m000) session. Use this session to maintain or display the Feature definitions defined for the business partner. |