Automatic Business Partner Merging

Use

You can use BAPIs or BOR methods to automate individual steps of business partner merging. For further information on this, see the SAP note 624341 (Merging Business Partners).

Features

You can use the following BAPIs for automatic business partner merging:

BAPI

Description

BAPI_ISUACCOUNT_GETDETAIL

Display contract account

BAPI_ISUACCOUNT_CHANGE

Change contract account

BAPI_ISUPARTNER_GETDETAIL

Display contract account

BAPI_ISUPARTNER_CHANGE

Change contract account

BAPI_ISUPROP_GETDETAIL

Detailed information on owner allocation

BAPI_ISUPROP_CREATEFROMDATA

Create owner allocation

BAPI_ISUPROP_CHANGE

Change owner allocation

BAPI_CTRACDOCUMENT_TRANSFER

Transfer open FI-CA items

BAPI_CTRACCONTRACTACCOUNT_GD1

Read detailed FI-CA contract account data

BAPI_CTRACCONTRACTACCOUNT_CH1

Change FI-CA contract account

Note Note

Use mostly IS-U BAPIs to change master data in SAP utilities since these function modules contain additional fields for interfaces.

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Caution Caution

SAP does not recommend that you use the batch input procedure to automate steps. For further information on this, see the SAP note 432178 (IS-U Transactions and Batch Input).

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Requirements for automating the business partner merging have been included. If you require any support, contact SAP.