1435463 - How to Determine Service Performer in a Sales Order

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1. Go to Sales Orders work center.
2. Go to Sales Orders view.
3. Edit the Sales Order ABC. (ABC represnts the ID of Sales Prder)
4. Go to View All and Go to the Items tab.
5. Select the Service Item, the Service Performer is not the one expected.

The Service Performer is determined according to the following rules:

• Rule #1 Responsibility for Ship-To:

Direct responsibility to the ship-to party can be define. All direct responsibilities overrule the responsibilities maintained in the Application and User Management work center.

• Rule #2 Determine Responsibilities for Service Performer - Sales Order for Ship-To:

The Responsibility to Determine Service Performer - Sales Order work category is used to determine the Service Performer that is responsible to execute the standardized service products in a Sales Order. It is possible to create responsibility rules for this work category related to the following standard set of parameters derived from the account entered in the sales document: Company, Country, Region, City, ZIP Code.

It is also possible to activate additionally the usage of ABC Classification via fine-tuning. Prerequisites:

• How to maintain Rule #1 Responsibility for Ship-To:

1. Go to Account Management work center.
2. Go to Accounts view.
3. Select the Ship-To Account and choose Edit -> Contacts.
4. On the Contact tab select Relationships and Responsiblities.
5. In the Responsibilities section, add a service peformer.
6. Save.

All direct responsibilities overrule the responsibilities maintained in the Application and User Management work center.

• How to maintain Rule #2 Determine Responsibilities for Service Performer - Sales Order for Ship-To:

1. Go to Application and User Management work center.
2. Go to Utilities and then Employee Work Distribution view.
3. Go to Service and Support and Resp. to Determine Service Performer - Sales Order

You can define work distribution rules by selecting the ID of User Responsible and the valid from and to date. 
Then you can select the rule details: Company, Country, Region, City, ZIP Code.

Example: Employee E_X (E_X is the ID of the Employee) has to be the Service Performer for all Sales Order with a Ship-To Party with country US.

1. Maintain a new rule in Work Distribution for the employee E_X.
2. In the rule details choose the Country United State and Save.

• How to define responsibility criteria for the selected responsibility category:

1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
2. Go to Activity List view.
3. Select fine tuning activity > Criteria to Determine Responsibilities for Service Execution - Sales Order.
4. Select Criteria to Determine Service Performer - Sales Order.

• How to change the determination logic:

1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
2. Go to Activity List view.
3. Select fine tuning activity and then Involved Parties for Sales Orders.
4. Select the party role > Maintain Determination.

You can activate or deactivate determination steps for your party role.

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