Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4510m000)

Use this session to view sold-to business partners, which you can enter or maintain in the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4110s000) details session.

When you double-click a record, or click the New button, the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4110s000) session is started.

Note

This session can be displayed in different views. When you change the view, LN changes the session's title bar, column sequence, and the number of view fields. If you click Sort by on the View menu, you can choose to sort the sold-to business partners by:

  • Business Partner
  • Search Key, Business Partner
  • Address, Business Partner
  • Internal Sales Representative, Business Partner
  • External Sales Representative, Business Partner

 

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.

The agreement with the sold-to business partner can include the following:

  • Default price and discount agreements
  • Sales order defaults
  • Delivery terms
  • The related ship-to and invoice-to 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 Prospect.

Allowed values

Business Partner Status

City
The city in which the sold-to business partner is established.
Country
The country in which the sold-to business partner is established.
Telephone
The sold-to business partner's telephone number.
Internal Sales Representative
The employee of your company responsible for contact with the sold-to business partner.
External Sales Representative
Your company employee who calls on the sold-to business partner, mainly by visits.
Search Key
The search key to find the business partner.

LN automatically fills this field with the first 16 positions of the business partner's name. The letters are converted into capitals.

Creation Date
The date and time at which the business partner was defined.
Address Code
The sold-to business partner's address.
Parent Business Partner
The business partner that 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.

ZIP Code/Postal Code
The sold-to business partner's ZIP code.
State/Province
The state or province where the sold-to business partner resides.
House Number
The sold-to business partner's house number.
Fax
The sold-to business partner's fax number.
Website
The sold-to business partner's website.
Start Date
The date and time when this status takes effect.

If you leave this field empty, the status takes effect immediately.

End Date
The expiry date and time of the business partner's status.

If you leave this field empty, the status continues.

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.
Area
The area in which the sold-to business partner is established.
Sales Territory
The sales territory to which the sold-to business partner is linked.
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 an LN session.

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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 whom 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.

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Calendar
The business partner 's calendar.
Contact
The business partner's default contact.
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.

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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 Sales Control and Warehousing on the Shipping tab of the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4110s000) session.

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Rate Determiner
The way in which the exchange rate is determined that LN uses to convert the transaction currency into the local and reporting currencies.
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, 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
If this check box is selected, additional costs can be calculated for the sold-to business partner.
Calculate Additional Costs For
Specify whether additional costs are calculated during the sales order procedure or the shipment procedure for the sold-to business partner.
Note

You can select Shipments only if the Calculate Additional Costs for Shipments check box is selected in the Inventory Handling Parameters (whinh0100m000) session.

Method of Additional Cost Calculation
Specify the level based on which the additional costs are calculated for the sold-to business partner.
Eligible for Promotion
If this check box is selected, The business partner is eligible for a promotion.

You can define promotions in the Promotion (tdpcg0140m000) session.

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.
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, LN issues a warning.

Sales Order Type
The default sales order type for the Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session.

If you leave this field empty, LN takes the default order type from the 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.

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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 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 with printing 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 Warehousing.
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.

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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.

Allowed values

Possible Values

Customer Priority
The priority for shipments to the sold-to business partner. This priority is used in Sales Control and in Warehousing.

A low number represents a high priority. A high number represents a low priority.

Delivery Terms
The delivery terms agreed with the business partner.

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Point of Title Passage
The default point of title passage used for the business partner.

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Return Delivery Terms
The delivery terms agreed with the business partner concerning the delivery of goods in case of a return order.
Ship-to Business Partner
The default ship-to business partner to which goods supplied to the sold-to business partner must be delivered.
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.

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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.

Invoice-to Business Partner
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 Business Partner for Freight
If this check box is selected, you charge the business partner for the freight costs of the sold goods.
Number of Employees
The number of employees that are working for the business partner.
Annual Revenue
The sold-to business partner's annual revenue.
Annual Revenue
The currency in which the annual revenue is expressed.
Industry Code
The codes that classify business partners by type of business based on a code list, as determined by the government authorities. These codes can be used to segment customers for territory management and campaigns. Examples of industry coding systems are: SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) and NAICS (North American Industry Classification System).
Ownership
A definition of the ownership, such as private, public, or investment company.
Rating
The rating assigned to the sold-to business partner.