Customer 360 (tdsmi1500m000)

Use this session to view, maintain, and specify sold-to business partner-related data. With this session, LN provides an overview of customer information and enables an account manager to perform multiple customer-related tasks.

How to use the Customer 360 (tdsmi1500m000) session

If you select a sold-to business partner from the business partner list in the Customer 360 (tdsmi1500m000) session, information about the business partner is displayed. If you double-click a record, the Business Partner (tccom4100s000) session starts.

The check marks indicate which data is available for the business partner. If you click a link, a session is started in which you can view, maintain, or specify the business partner data.

 

Account Manager
The manager who is responsible for maintaining relations with accounts, or business partners.

To only view the business partners for the account manager, click Apply Filter. Consequently, the sold-to business partners with the current account manager specified in the Internal Sales Representative or External Sales Representative fields in the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4510m000) session, are displayed.

Sold-to Contact
Name
E-Mail
The sold-to contact's e-mail address.
Do not call
If this check box is selected, the contact does not want to receive phone calls.
Office
The sold-to contact's office telephone number.
Primary Office Phone
If this check box is selected, the office phone number is the contact's primary phone number.
Mobile
The sold-to contact's mobile telephone number.
Primary Mobile Phone
If this check box is selected, the mobile phone number is the contact's primary phone number.
Credit Information
Currency
A generally accepted medium of exchange such as coins, treasury notes, and banknotes.

The following currency types are available in LN:

  • Home currency, which is used internally by companies to calculate costs, record budgets, and register tax amounts
  • Transaction currency, which is used in transactions with business partners, such as orders and invoices
Credit Limit
The maximum financial risk that you accept or are insured against concerning an invoice-to business partner, or that an invoice-from business partner accepts concerning you.

When you create orders, LN continually checks that the total amount of created and invoiced orders does not exceed the credit limit. When you exceed the limit, LN gives a warning message.

In the Sales Order Parameters (tdsls0100s400) session, you can specify whether LN must display a warning message or block the sales order when the new order balance exceeds the credit limit.

Order Balance
The balance of outstanding orders.
Invoice Balance
The total unpaid invoice amount.
Available Credit
The balance of all unpaid invoices relating to one particular business partner.
Turnover Overview
Currency
The business partner's standard business currency.
Year
The year to which the turnover amount applies.
Turnover
The annual sales volume.
Picture
Picture
The business partner's picture, which is defaulted from the Picture field in the Business Partner (tccom4100s000) session.
Graphs
The type of graph that is displayed.

These graphs can be selected:

  • Delivery Performance
    Shows the percentage of sales order lines that are delivered on time in comparison with all sales order lines delivered to the business partner, for the last 12 months.
  • Turnover
    Shows the turnover for the business partner, for the last 5 years.
  • Invoice Overdue
    Shows the open balance versus the total amount of overdue invoices for the business partner.

See Customer graphs.

Business Information
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.
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).
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 Currency
The currency in which the annual revenue is expressed.
Ownership
A definition of the ownership, such as private, public, or investment company.
Rating
The rating assigned to the sold-to business partner.
Presales, Sales, Execution, After Sales, and Miscellaneous
If a check mark is displayed, data is available in the linked session.
Business Partner
The business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, who owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project. Usually a customer's purchase department.

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

  • Default price and discount agreements
  • Sales order defaults
  • Delivery terms
  • The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner
Search Key
Use the search key to find a business partner.

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

Name
The business partner's name.
Address
The business partner's address.
House Number
The business partner's house number.
ZIP Code
The business partner's ZIP code.
City
The city where the business partner resides.
Country
The country where the business partner resides.
Access Number
The country's international access-number for the telephone.
Telephone
The main telephone number.
Status
You can specify a status for the business partner, which indicates whether you can trade with the business partner or not.

Allowed values

Business Partner Status

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.

Title
The title used on the documents addressed to the business partner.
Effective Date
The date and time when the business partner's status takes effect.

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

Expiry 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.
Currency
The currency used for the initial transactions with the business partner, such as for request for quotations and sales quotations.

On invoices, LN uses the default currency you specify for the invoice-to business partner and invoice-from business partner roles.

Related topics

One-Time Business Partner
If this check box is selected, the business partner is a one-time business partner.
Note

When you process the invoicing batch and print the invoice, the invoice address of one-time business partners is specified in Invoicing.

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 specified 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.

Chamber of Commerce
The business-partner's identification number at the chamber of commerce.
Commercial Identification
An information field that you can use, for example, as the business partner's identification number at a credit insurance company.
Business Partner 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.

Address
The business partner's default address.
Contact
The default contact for this business partner.
Front Office ID
The ID for the business partner generated by a front office application.
Internal Business Partner
If this check box is selected, the business partner is an internal business partner.

In Invoicing, you can send invoices to and receive invoices from business partners. If you want to invoice an enterprise unit of your own company, or if you receive invoices from an enterprise unit, you must specify 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 specify 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.
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.
I-Code
The business partner's Intracom code.
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 specify the pay-by and the pay-to roles for the business partner.

Related topics

EU Company No.
If the business partner is an internal business partner, this is the enterprise unit's operational company.
Collection Office
If this check box is selected, the business partner is considered a collection office.
Creation Date
The date 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.
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.

Text
If this check box is selected, a text is present.

 

Show All
Displays all the sold-to business partners from the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4510m000) session.
Apply Filter
Only displays the sold-to business partners for the account manager that match the value specified in the Internal Sales Representative or External Sales Representative fields in the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4510m000) session.
New Appointment
Starts the Appointment (tccom6600m100) session in which you can specify a new appointment.
New Task
Starts the Task (tccom6600m300) session in which you can specify a new task.
New Call
Starts the Call (tccom6600m200) session in which you can specify a new call.
New Email
Starts the Email (tccom6600m500) session in which you can specify a new e-mail.
Price Simulator
New Sales Order
Invoice-to BP Turnover
Addresses by BP
Starts the Addresses by Business Partner (tccom4133m000) session, in which you can view the addresses for the business partner by business partner role.
Invoice-to BP Open Entries
Accounts Receivable 360
Starts the Accounts Receivable 360 (tfacr2560m000) session, in which you can view and maintain various types of accounts receivable information.
Planned Inventory Transactions by Order
Planned Inventory Transactions by Item
Starts the Planned Inventory Transactions (whinp1500m000) session, in which you can view planned inventory transactions by item.
Inventory by Item and Warehouse
Starts the Warehouse - Item Inventory (whwmd2515m000) session, in which you can view item inventory by warehouse.
Inventory by Item, Warehouse, Location, Lot
Starts the Warehouse - Item - Lots Inventory (whltc1505m000) session, in which you can view lots by warehouse.
Promotions
Starts the Promotions (tdpcg0140m000) session, in which you can view and maintain promotions for item promotion group, or business partner promotion groups.
Opportunities
Starts the Opportunities (tdsmi1110m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain opportunities for a business partner.
Quotations
Starts the Sales Quotes (tdsls8310m000) session in which you can view, specify, and take action on sales quotations and quotation lines.
Bids
Starts the Bids (tpest3100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain bids for a business partner.
Activities
Starts the Activities (tccom6100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain activities for a business partner.
Contacts
Starts the Contacts by Business Partner Role (tccom4545m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain the contacts of the business partner.
Notes
Starts the Notes (tcstl1550m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain notes related to a business partner.
Sales Order Fulfillment
Starts the Sales Order Fulfillment Workbench (tdsls4601m100) session in which you can view the sales order lines yet to be delivered and to execute the appropriate actions on the lines.
Sales Order Intake
Starts the Sales Order Intake Workbench (tdsls4601m200) session in which you can view the sales order lines for which specific activities are yet to be executed, or unconfirmed backorder quantities exist. You can execute the appropriate actions on the lines.
Sales Order Templates
Starts the Sales Order Templates (tdsls2505m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain templates for the business partner. You can generate a sales order based on a template for the selected business partner.
Sales Order History
Starts the Sales Order History (tdsls4550m000) session in which you can view the history for the sales order.
Sales Contracts
Starts the Sales Contracts (tdsls8330m000) session in which you can view, specify, and take action on sales contracts and sales contract lines.
Project Contracts
Starts the Contracts (tpctm1100m000) session in which you can view, specify, maintain, and delete the contracts that are linked to the business partner.
Sales Releases
Starts the Sales Releases (tdsls3612m100) session in which you can view, specify, and take action on sales releases and sales release lines.
Sales Schedules
Starts the Sales Schedules (tdsls3611m100) session in which you can view, specify, and take action on sales schedules and schedule lines.
Sales Schedules History
Starts the Sales Schedule History (tdsls3560m000) session in which you can view sales schedule history.
Projects
Starts the Projects 360 (tppdm6500m100) session in which you can view, specify, maintain, and delete the Active projects that are linked to the business partner. Click Show All on the appropriate menu to view all projects.
Project (PCS)
Starts the Project 360 (tipcs0320m000) session in which you can view, specify, maintain, and delete the projects that are linked to the business partner.
Production Orders
Starts the Production Orders (tisfc0501m000) session in which you can view the production orders.

LN only displays the uncompleted production orders, which are the orders with a status other than Completed, Closed, and Archived. Click Show All Orders on the appropriate menu to view all production orders.

Service Calls
Starts the Call Overview (tsclm1509m000) session in which you can view the calls that are linked to the business partner.

LN only displays calls with the Registered, Assigned, and In Process status.

Installation Groups
Starts the Installation Groups (tsbsc1100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain the installation groups that are linked to the business partner.
Service Contract Quotes
Starts the Contract Quotations (tsctm2100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain service contract quotations for the business partner.
Service Contracts
Starts the Service Contracts (tsctm3100m000) session in which you can view, specify, maintain, and delete service contracts.

LN only displays service contracts with the Free, or Active status. Click All Service Contracts on the appropriate menu to view all service contracts.

Customer Claims
Starts the Customer Claims (tscmm1100m000) session in which you can view, specify, maintain, and delete claims that are linked to the business partner.
Service Quotes
Starts the Service Order Quotations (tssoc1100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain the service order quotations that are linked to the business partner.
Service Orders
Starts the Service Orders (tssoc2100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain the service orders that are linked to the business partner. LN only displays service orders with the Free, Planned, and Released status.
Maintenance Sales Quotes
Starts the Maintenance Sales Quotations (tsepp1100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain the maintenance sales quotations that are linked to the business partner.
Maintenance Sales Orders
Starts the Maintenance Sales Orders (tsmsc1100m000) session in which you can view, specify, and maintain maintenance sales orders.

LN only displays open maintenance sales orders, which are the orders with the Free and In Process status. Click All Maintenance Sales Orders on the appropriate menu to view all maintenance sales orders.

Invoicing 360
Starts the Invoicing 360 (cisli3600m000) session.