Business Partner Cleansing Case
A case that documents decisions and statuses concerning the data cleansing of a collection of business partners that were identified as potential duplicates.
Business Partner Data Cleansing
Business partner data cleansing is a process to improve the quality of business partner data in a system landscape. Potential duplicates of business partner instances are identified, reviewed and if approved, processed. After a successful partner merge, subscribed process components in the landscape are notified to replace references to the obsolete business partners.
Identification and Processing
Identification of duplicate business partners can be manual (for example prompted by a customer call or letter) using an execute agent. Alternatively, identification can be automatic, normally as part of a scheduled batch process run periodically (for example, once a week). To automatically identify potential duplicates, sample rules are provided. These rules can be configured using Business Add-Ins (BAdIs).
In both situations, once potential duplicates have been identified, a data cleansing case is created. The bank’s internal approval procedure to review the data cleansing case determines the result.
If the result is to reject the data cleansing case, the data cleansing case is flagged for archiving, no further action is taken and no message is sent.
If the result is to process the data cleansing case, the relationship between the target business partner and all the identified duplicate business partners is changed to Is Replaced By and the duplicates are flagged for archiving. A message is sent to subscribed applications. If you are using the release agent, one message is sent for each target business partner. If you are using a batch process, one bulk message containing all target business partners is sent.
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Released with Restrictions
This business object and related operations are only released for SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0, support package 9, and Banking Services from SAP 9.0 (FSAPPL 500).
More Information
For more information about business partner data management, see the Financial Services Business Partner Data Management process component.
For more information about data cleansing in the back-end system, see Data Cleansing for SAP Business Partner for Financial Services.
For more information, see SAP note 2157713.