Configure a Partner Profile

In SAP, all partner systems involved in a distribution model have a profile. There are several profile types, such as customer profiles and vendor profiles. This distinction is generally not necessary and you usually create your partners profiles using a generic logical system type.

For a receiver partner system (outbound parameters are filled in), the following settings are specified in the partner profile:

• The receiver port to which the data will be sent.

• The sending method: either one IDoc at a time, or by packets.

• The IDoc type that will be sent to that partner. For a given message type, the type of IDoc might vary depending on the receiver system. You might have different versions of SAP in your system landscape.

To create a partner profile:

1. Run the we20 transaction.
   
   

   
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2. Click Partner Type LS.
3. Click Create.
4. Enter the Partner No. — the logical system name that was created earlier.
   
   

   
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5. Click Save.
6. Click the Add icon to add the outbound parameters.
   
   

   
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7. Enter the Message Type, Port name and the Basic type for the particular message type.
   
   

   
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8. Click Save.