Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4520m000)

Use this session to view buy-from business partners, which you can enter or maintain in the Buy-from Business Partner (tccom4120s000) details session.

When you double-click a record, or click the New button, the Buy-from Business Partner (tccom4120s000) 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 buy-from business partners by:

  • Business Partner
  • Search Key, Business Partner
  • Address, Business Partner

 

Buy-from Business Partner
The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, delivery terms, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner.
Status
The status assigned to the business partner, which determines the actions that can be carried out for the business partner.

For example, you cannot specify 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.

Allowed values

Business Partner Status

City Code
The code of the city in which the business partner is established.
Country
The country in which the buy-from business partner is established.
Phone Number
The buy-from business partner's telephone number.
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
The buy-from 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 buy-from business partner's ZIP code.
City
The name of the city in which the business partner is established.
State/Province
The state or province where the buy-from business partner resides.
House Number
The buy-from business partner's house number.
Fax
The buy-from business partner's fax number.
Website
The buy-from 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 buy-from business partner is established.
Line of Business
The buy-from business partner's line of business, which is used as a sorting criterion for 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.

Related topics

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.

Vendor Rating
If you want to apply vendor rating to the business partner, select this check box.
Vendor Classification
The business partner's classification as a result of vendor rating.
Note

To retrieve the business partner's vendor classification, LN uses the last record from the Vendor Ratings by Criterion (tdpur8102m100) session for which the Criterion Type field is Period Rating.

Business Partner for Statistics Update
The business partner for whom LN updates the statistics 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.
Rate Determiner
The way in which LN determines the exchange rate that is used in purchase orders.
Use Purchase Rates for Receipts
If this check box is selected, LN uses purchase rate data for the debit side of the purchase order/receipt transaction.
Purchase Price List
The price list used to link price and/or discount agreements to the business partner.

These agreements can be overruled by other price agreements that you reach with a buy-from business partner.

Order Discount
The default order discount percentage that you apply to the business partner's purchase orders.
Business Partner for Prices/Discounts
Prices and discounts for purchase orders to the buy-from business partner must be based on the terms and conditions agreed with the business partner selected in this field.

If you leave this field empty, LN applies the prices and discounts that you agreed with the buy-from business partner specified on the purchase order.

Note

This business partner must have the same parent business-partner as the buy-from business partner defined in this session.

Retro-Billing Applicable
The value that is used by default for the Item applicable for Retro-Billing check box in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session for the buy-from business partner.
Purchase Office
The purchase office that LN uses by default for purchases from the buy-from business partner.

If you define a purchase office as the enterprise unit's default purchase office in the Departments (tcemm1124m000) session, LN uses the enterprise unit's default purchase office for automatically generated purchase orders.

Buyer
The employee of your company responsible for contact with the buy-from business partner.
Purchase Order Type
The default purchase order type for purchase orders.

If you leave this field empty, LN takes the default order type from the Purchase User Profiles (tdpur0143m000) session.

Our Customer 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 buy a list item from this business partner.
Print Purchase Order by Exception
If this check box is selected, only new and changed purchase order lines to which you assign a purchase acknowledgement code are printed on the purchase order.

In this way, you can control which changes to the purchase order lines are printed on the next purchase order. This accommodates buy-from business partners who wish to receive a printed purchase order in special cases only. For example, when you have changed the delivery date, item, or price.

If this check box is cleared, purchase orders are printed for all order lines, regardless of the acknowledgement codes.

Self-Billing
If this check box is selected, self-billing is used by default for purchase orders that you issue to this buy-from business partner.

Related topics

Invoice After
If self-billing is applicable, use this field to define the stage at which self billed invoices can be generated.
  • Inspection
    Self bills can be generated after the goods are inspected and approved.
  • Receipt
    Self bills can be generated after the goods are received or consumed.

Related topics

Self-Billing Date type
If the Self-Billing check box is selected, use this field to define on which date the self-billing payments are based. Either the receipt date or the shipping date can be used as the invoice date on self-billed invoices.

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Generate Release per Vehicle
If this check box is selected, LN sends EDI messages for the releases of shipments sorted by end item instead of sorted by the supplied item. In the automotive industry, the vehicle is an end item.

This check box is only relevant for sequence shipping schedules.

This check box is the default setting for the business partner of the Generate Release per Vehicle check box in the Purchase Releases (tdpur3120m000) session. You can change the setting on the purchase release header.

Environmental Compliance Declared
Worldwide, various regulations exist to limit the use of hazardous chemical substances in electronic equipment preventing environmental pollution.

Companies, in most cases producers of electronic equipment, are legally required to:

  • Set up and control compliancy rules.
  • Verify whether purchased, engineered, manufactured, and serviced material is compliant.
  • Verify whether their work processes are compliant.

If this check box is selected, the business partner works in compliance with the regulations preventing environmental pollution.

Item Cross Reference
The default alternative way of communicating with the business partner about items.
Note

You can only set this field to MPN if the Manufacturer Part Numbers check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session.

Allowed values

Item Cross Reference

Use Confirmation
If this check box is selected, ordered quantities must be confirmed by the customer. Therefore, the Confirmation Accepted check box must be selected before a purchase order or schedule can be released to Warehousing.
Note

This field is only visible if the Use Confirmation (Purchase) check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session.

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-from Business Partner
The default ship-from business partner that issues the goods that you buy from the buy-from business partner.
Schedule Quantity Qualifier
The types of quantities that are communicated to the supplier.
Invoice-from Business Partner
The invoice-from business partner from whom you receive invoices connected with the purchase orders that you send to this buy-from business partner.
Note

One of the following must be true:

  • The buy-from business partner and the invoice-from business partner have the same parent business partner.
  • The buy-from business partner is the invoice-from 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 goods that you purchased.
Text
If this check box is selected, a text is present.