Merging Business Partners (IS-U) 
Use
You can use the business partner merging function in connection with the central business partner (SAP application component CA-BP Contract Accounting – Business Partner) and Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA Financial Accounting – Contract Accounting).
Notes on Implementation
The following SAP notes contain further information on business partner merging:
Title of SAP Note |
SAP Note Number |
FAQs for Transferring Open Items (FP40) |
616098 |
IS-U Transactions and Batch Input |
432178 |
Merging Business Partners |
624341 |
Move-In: No Meter Reading Results Proposed |
503243 |
Integration
Part of the central business partner concept is that every natural or legal person as well as every group is only created once in a system. There are different reasons why a business partner is created several times in one system. Business partners that have been created more than once are referred to as duplicates. Duplicate can occur due to the following reasons:
· Migration from legacy systems without merging business partners
· Migration from different legacy systems without a duplicate check
· New creation of business partners in SAP systems without duplicate checks
Data Cleansing
The Cleansing Tool (transaction CLEAR_INT) enables you to process duplicates. It has been available since ABAP Release 5.0A and is already used by the SAP business partner (as of SAP CRM Release 3.0, for example).
These data cleansing functions are not released for systems with industry add-ons.
For further information, see the release information about Changes to Data Cleansing on the SAP Service Marketplace under http://service.sap.com/releasenotes ® mySAP Solutions ® R/3 ® SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.70x110 (English) ® Chapter 04 Cross Application Components (page 12).
Features
For further details about business partner merging, read the following information on business partner objects and further functions and tools:
· Objects in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
· Objects and Enhancements in SAP Utilities
· Objects and Enhancements in SAP CRM
· Automatic Business Partner Merging
In the following, the business partner to be removed from the system is referred to as the source business partner. The business partner that replaces the source business partner is referred to as the target business partner.