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 Partner (tccom4110s000) details session. When you double-click a record, or click the New button, the Sold-to Business Partner (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:
Sold-to 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:
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 City Code The code of the city in which the business partner is established. Country The country in which the sold-to business partner is established. Phone Number 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. City The name of the city in which the business partner is established. 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. 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. Calendar The business partner 's calendar. Contact The business partner's default contact. Response Type The response time you have agreed with the business partner. Service uses the data in the Response Type field and the Priority field to calculate the urgency of a business partner's call. Priority The priority for Service that is assigned to the business partner. Service uses the data in the Response Type 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 Partner (tccom4110s000) session. 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 standard cost. 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:
Lower Margin The percentage that the actual sales price is allowed to be lower than the standard cost. 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:
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. Allowed values Method of Additional Cost Calculation Specify the level based on which the additional costs are calculated for the sold-to business partner. Allowed values Eligible for Promotion If this check box is selected, The business partner is eligible for a promotion. You can define promotions in the Promotions (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 Sales 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. 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. 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 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. Point of Title Passage The default point of title passage used for the business partner. 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. Automatically 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. 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. Shipment Handling Unit Mask The mask that LN uses to generate handling unit ID numbers for shipments shipped to the current sold-to business partner. SSCC Standard If this check box is selected, the shipment handling unit mask must be validated against the serial-shipping container code (SSCC). 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:
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 Currency 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.
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