Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
CA-GTF-TS (Application Component) Technical Application Support⤷
BM (Package) MM Cross-Application Objects
Basic Data
| Data Element | LIFNR |
| Short Description | Account Number of Vendor or Creditor |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | LIFNR | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 10 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
| Value Table | LFA1 |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | KRED_C | |
| Search Help: Parameters | LIFNR | |
| Parameter ID | LIF | |
| Default Component name | VENDOR_NO | |
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Vendor |
| Medium | 15 | Vendor |
| Long | 20 | Vendor |
| Heading | 10 | Vendor |
Documentation
Definition
Specifies an alphanumeric key that uniquely identifies the vendor in the SAP system.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0001
Use
If the customer is also a vendor, you can enter the vendor's account number here. This allows open items relating to this vendor to be offset against each other during processing by the payment and reminder (dunning) program. The link to this vendor's line items is established for display purposes via this number.
Dependencies
If offsetting between customer and vendor accounts is desired, the following preconditions must be fulfilled:
- The vendor number must have been entered in the relevant customer master record.
- The customer number must have been entered in the relevant vendor master record.
- An "X" must have been placed in the fields "Offs. w. cust."/ "Offs.w. vend." in both master records.
Note that the fields for clearing are only displayed on the "Payment Transactions" screen if you have entered the corresponding data on the vendor or the customer in the screen box Account control.
Note
Specify that offsetting is desired in the company-code-specific part of the master records. Each individual company (company code) can then decide for itself whether it wants to adopt this procedure.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0002
Use
If, for example, you have a condition for freight costs to be invoiced by a different vendor, here you can replace the name of the principal vendor by the name of the freight vendor.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0003
Use
The entry of a vendor serves to limit the list of consignment stocks.
Procedure
You have the following options for entering your selection criteria for this field:
- Enter an individual value in this field.
- Enter an interval of values (from - to) in this and the adjacent field.
- Click on the arrow next to the field to enter several intervals or individual values.
All stock balances that satisfy your selection criteria will be displayed. (Copied from TX,SELECT_CRITERIA)
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0004
Use
Procedure
Enter a value in this field if you want to search for purchase orders that satisfy this criterion.
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0005
Use
In this field you can enter the name of the vendor of the asset.
A master record for this vendor need not have been created within financial accounting.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0006
The accrurals/deferrals of this report should only be used for test runs, or in instances where it is not possible to run the report without accrurals/deferrals. Further information can be found in the report documentation (application help).
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0007
Use
Procedure
Enter the freight vendor if the delivery costs of this condition type are to be assigned to a different vendor than the one shown in the purchase order (that is, they are to be assigned to a freight vendor).
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0008
Use
Procedure
- If you are entering an invoice without reference to a purchase order or a goods receipt/delivery note, fill only the field "Vendor" in the "Selection" part of the screen.
- If you are entering an invoice WITH reference to one of the above, and the invoicing party differs from the vendor defined in the purchase order, enter the PO, delivery note or GR document, and the vendor number.
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0009
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0010
Use
Permits delimitation of vendor numbers.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0011
Use
The system accesses the reference vendor (creditor) to obtain the data for the initial and subsequent compilations (updating) of the vendor (creditor) master records that cannot be adopted from the HR master data info types.
Please note that reference data for all company codes that are relevant in accordance with the HR master data must be available for this reference vendor (creditor).
Since, during the creation of vendor (creditor) master records, program RPRAPA00 cannot externally assign the numbers of these records, care must be taken that the reference vendor (creditor) is assigned to an account group that compels internal number assignment.
If no house bank is specified in the reference vendor, this is determined via the characteristic TRVHB in accordance with the organizational assignment of the employee in HR.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0013
Use
If the catalog offers products from one vendor only (that is, if it is not a broker catalog), enter the number of the SAP vendor master record.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Also enter the purchasing organization responsible.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0020
Use
Procedure
If you enter a vendor as a selection criterion, all of the materials for which no purchasing info record exists for the vendor are removed from the list created.
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 0140
Definition
Number uniquely identifying the vendor that carries out the external processing.
Supplementary Documentation - LIFNR 1
Use
If, in the conditions, freight costs are invoiced by another vendor for example, you can replace the original vendor's name by that of the freight vendor at this point.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110908 |
| SAP Release Created in |
