Business Partners (tccom4500m000)Use this session to view, enter, and maintain business partners. When you double-click a record, or click the New button, the Business Partner (tccom4100s000) session is started. Note If you delete a business partner, the business partner's roles, banks, and balances are also deleted.
Business Partner Role The relationship between you and the business partner. Note Only business partner roles can be defined that correspond with the relationship. Status If there are outstanding sales orders or open invoices for the business partner, you cannot change the status from Active to Prospect. When you define the a business partner role for this business partner, LN changes the Prospect status to Active. Allowed values City The city in which the business partner is established. Country The country in which the business partner is established. Phone Number The business partner's telephone number. To be Verified If this check box is selected, you must still verify the business partner's details or status. When you verify the business partner's details or status, clear the check box. Parent Business Partner Note If the busines partner belongs to a business partner hierarchy, you can click Business Partner Tree on the appropriate menu to view the business partner's place in the hierarchy in the Business Partner Tree (tccom4700m000) session. Search Key The search key for the business partner. Default value The first 16 characters of the business partner's Name field. Periods and characters preceding them are not included in the search key. Creation Date The date the business partner data, business partner role data, or business partner address data was created. Address The business partner's default address. ZIP Code/Postal Code The business partner's ZIP code. State/Province The state or province where the business partner resides. House Number The business partner's house number. Fax Number The business partner's fax number. Website The business partner's website. Contact The primary contact for this business partner. Start Date The date and time when the business partner's 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. Title The title used on the documents addressed to the business partner. 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. Currency The currency used for the initial transactions with the business partner, for example, request for quotations or sales quotations. On invoices, LN uses the default currency you specify for the invoice-to business partner and invoice-from business partner roles. I-Code The business partner's Intracom code. Business Partner for Texts If you select a business partner in this field, the text linked to this business partner is printed on external documents. For example, you can print text linked to the sold-to business partner (special delivery agreements) on the shipping order printed for the ship-to business partner. If you leave this field empty, only text linked to the current business partner is printed on documents for the business partner. One-Time Business Partner If the business partner is a one-time business partner, select this check box Note When you process the billing request and print the invoice, the invoice address of one-time business partners is entered in Invoicing. Factor If this check box is selected, the business partner acts as a factor. If the factor handles your invoices and collects payments from your customers, the factor must have the pay-by role. If the factor collects payments on behalf of your suppliers, the factor must have the pay-to role. Note Before you can select this check box, you must define the pay-by and the pay-to roles for the business partner. Collection Office If this check box is selected, the business partner is considered a collection office. Credit Limit Check Per Department If this check box is selected, you can define a credit limit for the invoice-to role of the business partner that applies to the current company, if the current company is of type Financial or type Both. If this check box is cleared, you can define a credit limit for the invoice-to role of the business partner that applies to all departments and all companies of your multicompany environment. Note This check box does not affect the invoice-from business partner role. For invoice-from business partners, you can specify a credit limit for each department. Currency for BP Balances/Credit Limits The currency in which the business partner balances and credit limits are expressed. Note Unless the transaction currency matches the BP balances currency, LN translates amounts to the BP balance currency, using the given rate date and the Internal rate type, from either of the following: Default value Reference currency Chamber of Commerce The business partner's identification number at the chamber of commerce. Commercial Identification An informational field that you can use, for example, for the business-partner's identification number at a credit insurance company such as Dun & Bradstreet. Business Entity Identifier An optional identifier for the direct debit company in the SEPA direct debit file. Internal Business Partner If the business partner is an internal business partner, select this check box. In Invoicing you can only send invoices to and receive invoices from business partners. Therefore, if you want to invoice an enterprise unit of your own company, or if you receive invoices from an enterprise unit, you must define the enterprise unit as an internal business partner. You can link only one internal business partner to an enterprise unit. Note
Affiliated Company If this check box is selected, the business partner is an affiliated company. The affiliated company is used in:
Note This check box is enabled if you have defined all the business partner roles for the business partner. Affiliated Company No. The company number of the affiliated company represented by the business partner. You can link a logistic company to only one business partner. Intercompany Settlement If this check box is selected, intercompany settlement transactions can be generated for the business partner. Note If the business partner is involved in intercompany settlement transactions, the invoice-from business partner must not be a subcontractor. If you select this check box:
EDI If this check box is selected, electronic data interchange (EDI) can be used for the business partner. Front Office ID The ID for the business partner generated by a front office application. Creator's Unique System ID The system ID of the user who defined the business partner. EU Company No. If the business partner is an internal business partner, this is the enterprise unit's operational company. Created by The user who defined the business partner. Last Modified by The user who last modified the business partner data, business partner role data, or business partner address data was created. Last Modification Date The date the business partner data, business partner role data, or business partner address data was last modified.
Anonymize Contacts by Business Partner Starts the Contacts by Business Partner Role (tccom4545m000) session. Addresses by Business Partner Starts the Addresses by Business Partner (tccom4133m000) session. Business Partner Tree Starts the Business Partner Tree (tccom4700m000) session. Sold-to Business Partner Starts the Sold-to Business Partner (tccom4110s000) session. Ship-to Business Partner Starts the Ship-to Business Partner (tccom4111s000) session. Invoice-to Business Partner Starts the Invoice-to Business Partner (tccom4112s000) session. Pay-by Business Partner Starts the Pay-by Business Partner (tccom4114s000) session. Buy-from Business Partner Starts the Buy-from Business Partner (tccom4120s000) session. Ship-from Business Partner Starts the Ship-from Business Partner (tccom4121s000) session. Invoice-from Business Partner Starts the Invoice-from Business Partner (tccom4122s000) session. Pay-to Business Partner Starts the Pay-to Business Partner (tccom4124s000) session. Easy Entry Business Partner Starts the Easy Entry Business Partner (tccom4201m000) session. To Be Verified Only displays business partners whose business partner details or status must still be verified. These are the business partners for which the To be Verified check box is selected. Ship-to BP's by Sold-to BP Starts the Ship-to Business Partners by Sold-to Business Partner (tccom4117m000) session.
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