You want to make sure that a particular forwarding house is entered as the ordering party in a freight order based on the ID of the consignee. What do you have to define in Customizing for the…

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Options

• AShipper/consignee determination
• BOrganizational unit determination condition
• CPartner determination profile
• DCreation strategy

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  18% (4)
• C
  73% (16)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

Partner Determination Profile (C) is correct because it is the Customizing object assigned to a freight order type that controls how business partner roles - such as ordering party, shipper, and consignee - are derived and populated. Within the profile, you configure determination rules that can resolve one partner role (ordering party = forwarding house) based on the identity of another (consignee ID), which is exactly what the scenario requires.

A (Shipper/consignee determination) is wrong because it specifically governs how the shipper and consignee are found, not how the ordering party is derived from them - it works in the opposite direction of what's needed here.

B (Organizational unit determination condition) is wrong because it determines internal organizational entities (e.g., purchasing org, company code), not external business partners like a forwarding house.

D (Creation strategy) is wrong because it controls how a freight order is generated (e.g., from a freight unit or booking), not who is assigned to partner roles within it.

Memory tip: Think of the Partner Determination Profile as a "who plays what role" rulebook - any time the question is about automatically assigning a business partner to a role based on some other party or condition, the answer lives in the Partner Determination Profile assigned to the document type.

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