| | Business Partners (tccom4500m000)Note If you delete a business partner, the business partner's
roles, banks, and balances are also deleted. Business Partner A party with whom you carry out business transactions, for
example, a customer or a supplier. You can also define departments within your
organization that act as customers or suppliers to your own department as
business partners. The business partner definition includes: - The organization's name and main address.
- The language and currency used.
- Taxation and legal identification data.
You address the business partner in the person of the
business partner's contact. The business-partner status determines if you can
carry out transactions. The transactions type (sales orders, invoices,
payments, shipments) is defined by the business partner's role. Role The relationship between you and the business partner. Status Indicates the actions that can be carried out for the business
partner. The status can be: Active, Inactive, or Prospect. For example, you cannot enter a sales order for a business
partner with status Prospect, 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. When you define the a business partner role
for this business partner, LN changes the Prospect status to Active. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 - You can select this check box only when you create a new
business partner.
- Before you can select his check box, you must first define
all the business partner roles.
- To remove the link between the business partner and the
enterprise unit, clear this check box and save the data.
Affiliated Company If this check box is selected, the business partner is
an affiliated company. The affiliated company is used in: - The multisite master plan to distinguish the dependent demand from the independent demand
when analyzing the order file in Enterprise Planning.
- Multicompany electronic data interchange to determine the
company for which an internal EDI message is meant.
- Financials, to generate a reconciliation report for
the companies for which LN generates intercompany settlements.
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: - LN clears the One-Time Business Partner check
box.
- You cannot select the Self-Billing check
box in the Buy-from Business Partner (tccom4120s000) session.
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. | |