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Special Stock Partner for Consignment Stock and Returnable Packing based on Ship-to Party Partner
Dear all:
With this document I explain the steps necessaries to manage the Consigment Stock and Returnable Packaging material by SHIP TO Partner.
Introduction:
The stock on loan to the customer as CONSIGMENT STOCK or RETURNABLE PACKAGING MATERIAL is managed by the function SB Special stock partner.
By default is managed by the SOLD TO.
With this customizing is posible to manage by SHIP TO.
Development:
1. Assign the Partner determination for WE/SH Ship to Party with SB Partner function.
SPRO–> Sales and Distribution –> Master Data –> Business Partner –> Customers –> Customer Hierarchy –> Set Partner determination for Hierarchy categories –> Set up partner determination for customer master.
a) Assign SB partner funtion to SH Partner procedure
With this customizing you assing to to partner funtion SHIP TO TO the function SB SPECIAL STOCK PARTNER
b) Assign Account groups with SB partner function
With this customizing you assing to Account groups for SHIP TO the partner function SB.
2. Update customer with SB partner function
3 Choose both functions in Sales order
In partner tab for the sales order you can see both partner functions.
Later with MB58 you can track the stock for consignment stock or Returnable material packaging for each SHIP TO instead SOLD TO.
I hope this information are useful for you.
Thanks a lot sir For sharing This Document 🙂
Thanks for your comments
very nice document, thanks a lot for your effort and sharing!
Thanks I apreciate your comments
very nice and useful document
Thanks for your comments
Hello Jose,
Few things in this document are not clear to me -
1.
Can you give a business example? What do you want and what is the business advantage of this?
2. In a)
- In partner procedure WE, why have you activated mandatory and non-modifiable for SP?
- what do you mean by?
how are you assigning partner function SP with SB?
Dear TW Typewriter:
My comments for each point.
1. If you are sending stock on consignment or returnable packaging for several SHIP TO, with this customizing is possible to "see" the stock in MB58 for each SHIP TO, with the normal process all the stock is displayed by SOLD TO, and sometimes for business requeriments you need to split the stock for each SHIP TO.
In our company we send pallets (returnable packaging) with the finished goods for several SHIP TO and the SOLD TO is not receiving and managing this pallets (the SOLD TO is not responsible for the pallets in loan), so to track the quantities for each SHIP TO we split it, and is easy to ask for each one to return the pallets.
2a. With this customizing is not allowed to change the partner in the document, this may change for each individual requirement.
2b. The last comment was a mistake by my side, I updated the Document, The right sentence is:
With this customizing you assign to Account groups for SHIP TO the partner function SB.
To assign the function SB to SH/WE you can manage the special stock partner by SHIP TO.
Thanks for your feed back 🙂 .
hi dear
thx very much for you effort
we are encountered scenario 1 as you mentioned as above on some project, but i have not idea to handle it.
and yet, we understood.
thx again
Nice, that my document was useful 🙂
Regards
Jose Antonio
Hi Jose,
Nice document!! Keep sharing things continuously which will helpful to all.
Regards,
Shyam
Dear Shyam, thanks for your comments.
Sir Antonio,
That is just awesome.I appreciate your thoughts.
Regards,
Arnab sarkar
Thanks Arnab for your comments
Sir Antonio,
need some of topic like this and discussion also.Pls post .Waiting for your post.
Regards,
Arnab
Very good job Jose Antonio,
I was wondering if to be able to determine the SB partner based on the Ship-to record (where each Ship-to has only one default SB, and you do not want to have to select the correct SB partner each time, only the correct Ship-to).
If you could setup a Source Partner Function, to determine the SB partner from the SH partner.
(Or is it hard-coded to always determine SB from the Sold-to ?)
Dear Edward:
In our company did not use this set up, because for other scenaries we need to choose other SB partner, So SH is not equal to SB as a rule.
But for a single sales organization with ABAP enhacement we force to only select SH and SB will be the same partner.
Thanks for your comments 🙂
It is really good
good article
Thanks for the feedback 🙂
Good one
Very good article .
Hi Jose,
Thanks for the article.
I have the same requirement and followed the process as you have described.
Material Document for the returnable packaging materials were created based on Ship-to-party, But the main material too was based on ship-to party instead of sold-to!! How to correct this?
Thank you very much for sharing
Thanks to share, clear and easy.
good info. How would you use the SA to return consignment stock in EWM?