To which elements do you assign a partner determination procedure? Note: There are 2 correct answers to this question.

Question

Options

• ADelivery item category
• BBusiness partner category
• CAccount group
• DDelivery type

• A
  9% (2)
• B
  17% (4)
• C
  74% (17)

Explanation

In SAP SD configuration, partner determination procedures are assigned to account groups (which control partner function availability and requirements in the customer master) and delivery types (which govern which partner functions appear at the delivery document header level). These two assignment points cover both master data and transactional document contexts, making C and D correct.

A (Delivery item category) is wrong because partner determination for deliveries is controlled at the header level via delivery type, not at the item level - item categories govern other behaviors like movement types and relevance for billing.

B (Business partner category) is a distractor referencing the BP architecture (person/organization/group), which classifies partners structurally but is not a configuration node where partner determination procedures are assigned.

Memory tip: Think in two layers - master data (account group) and documents (delivery type, sales doc type, billing type). If an answer option is an item-level object or a classification concept rather than a header-level document type or master data grouping, it's almost certainly wrong.

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