Merging Business Partners (IS-U)

Purpose

Note Note

Note that you can only use the functions described in this documentation section (Merging Business Partners (IS-U)), if you are using the industry solution SAP Utilities .

End of the note.

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).

Implementation Considerations

The following SAP notes contain more information about business partner merging:

Title of SAP Note

SAP Note

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. Duplicates can occur due to the following reasons:

  • Migration from legacy systems without merging business

  • Migration from different legacy systems without a duplicate check

  • New creation of business partners in SAP systems without duplicate checks

Data Cleansing

You can use the data cleansing tool Cleansing Tool (transaction CLEAR_INT) 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).

Note Note

These data cleansing functions are not released for systems with industry add-ons.

End of the note.

For more information, see the release note about Changes to Data Cleansing on the SAP Service MarketplaceSAP Service Marketplace under Start of the navigation path  http://service.sap.com/releasenotes Next navigation step mySAP Solutions Next navigation step R/3 Next navigation step SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.70x110(English) Next navigation step Chapter 04 Cross Application Components End of the navigation path (page 12).

Features

The following information about business partner objects and other functions and tools is available for 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.