| # Parent business partner The parent business partner links the various business-partners with different roles in a distributed business partner organization. If you define branches of one company as different business partners, the business partners must all have the same parent business partner. To process a sales order from a sold-to business partner, send an invoice to an invoice-to business partner, and to register the receipt of an invoice amount from a pay-by business partner, one of the following must be true: The business-partner roles mentioned have the same parent business partner. The sold-to business partner is the parent of the invoice-to business partner and of the pay-by business partner. The sold-to business partner is the parent or child of the invoice-to business partner and the invoice-to business partner is the parent or child of the pay-by business partner. The ship-to business partner does not need to be related to the sold-to business partner by means of a parent business partner. The same rules apply to the combination of buy-from, ship-from, invoice-from, and pay-to business partners. You can select the parent business partner in the Business Partners (tccom4100s000) session. If you leave the Parent Business Partner field empty, the business partner is considered to be its own parent. Related topics Business partners |