Inbound Sales Orders - Sold to party

Question: I am new to ALE/ and IDOCS and i need to know how partner number conversion be achieved?

For inbound orders using orders05, should the sold to party partner number be populated with the SAP partner number or can that be converted using the edpar table? If yes how can that be achieved?

Should the conversion of the sold -to party partner number be done before the idoc is accepted in the sap system?

Also, if we have 10000 customers do we create as many partner profiles for edi processing?

All inputs will be appreciated.

Answer:
EDPAR table: for ship-to-party.

For sold to party you have to maintain vendor master/ Correspondance Acc. "Acc w/ vendor" field. You have enter the ship-to-party customer number here.
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