Comparing Customer Master Records 

Steps

Customer master records are created and maintained in Financial Accounting and in Sales and Distribution. In some cases, a customer master record may have been created for a customer in SD but not in FI and vice versa. There is a program which determines which customer records have been maintained in one of these applications but not in the other.

To perform this function for the sold-to party, for example, proceed as follows:

  1. In the SD Master Data Screen select, Business partners ® Sold-to party ® Master data comp.

    2. You reach the selection screen.

  2. Enter the range of names or numbers of the customers for whom you want to check the master records.
  3. If you want to create a list of customers for whom master records have been created in SD but not in FI, specify a sales area in the Details specific to Sales and Distribution section of the screen and activate the Not in FI button in the Selection parameters section of the screen.

    4. If you want to create a list of customers for whom master records have been created in FI but not in SD, specify a company code in the Details specific to Financial Accounting section of the screen and activate the Not in SD button in the Selection parameters section of the screen.

  4. Enter further selection criteria if you want to limit the scope of the search.
  5. You can enter a freely definable text in the Additional heading field. This text is displayed in the page header of the compiled list.
  6. Select Program ® Execute.

    7. Depending on your selection criteria, you obtain a list of customers for which customer master records exist in SD but not in FI or vice versa.

    You can search within the list for, for example, records created on a particular date or for a particular customer by selecting Edit ® Find. A dialog box appears in which you can enter a search term which suits your purposes (the creation date or customer name, for example).

  7. Select Back until you return to the initial screen.