Consumers

Use

A consumer is a natural ,private business partner with whom you have a relationship involving the transfer of goods and servies.You create customer master records for business partners who are consumers.

Features

Reference Customer

To create consumer master record data and to process sales,you require reference data known as the reference customer.You can create a maximum of one reference customer per client.When you create the customer,you must enter company code data and sales area data.Company code data and sales area data is used with master records for consumers as follows:

• Company code data
  When you create a master record for a consumer,the company code data for the consumer is copied from the reference customer.Once the master record is created,you can maintain the data for this company code and additional company codes.
• Sales area data
  Sales area data is not maintained for consumer.
  You create a master record for a consumer and you do not enter sales area data.During operative business transactions,for example,when you create an order for a consumer,the sales area data is copied from the reference customer.
  Sales area data is maintained for a consumer.
  You create a master record for a consumer and you enter sales area data.During operative business transactions,this sales area data is used by the system.
  A consumer cannot be a reference customer.

Maintenance of Consumer Master Data

You have the following options for maintaining consumer master data:

• You can maitain the minimum number of fields for consumer master data maintenance on a tab.
• You can maintain all fields for consumer master data maintenance on an extended tab with additional tal pages.

When you maintain consumer master data,you can switch between these options without leaving the transaction.As for customer master data maintenance,standard tabs appear as defaults or you can create you own tal layouts for both consumer master data maintenance options.

Prerequisites

In customizing for Business Partners,you can create you own tal layouts for consumer master data maintenance.You do this in the activity Create Tab Layouts for Consumers.

Activities

Processing Operative Business Transactions

• Document Entry
  You have not maintained sales area data for a consumer.During document entry,thes sales area data is copied from the master data of the reference customer.
• Partner Determination
  When you create an order,for example,partner functions are determined as follows:
  You have not maintained sales area data for a consumer.
  The following partner functions are automatically assigned to the consumer who is ordering:
  Sold-to party
  Payer
  Bill-to party
  Ship-to party

Thre reference customer is used to determine other partner functions,for example:

• Forwarding agent
• Employee responsible

You have maintained sales area data for a consumer.

All partner functions are determined from the master record for the consumer.

Output

You have to set output determination for cousumer master data processing using the condition technique (that is ,the print proposal does not originate in the customer master data.)

Additional Information

Creating and Changing Business Partner Master Data

Partner Determination in Sales and Distribution (SD-BF-PD)

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