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Process documentation Carrying Out Business Partner Conversion Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

Recommendation

SAP recommends that you carry out the business partner conversion according to the following three-step procedure.

This procedure helps you improve the quality of the business partner conversion in the production system, and reduce the amount of time spent on the conversion process.

Prerequisites

For detailed information about the requirements for carrying out the business partner conversion, see Guidelines for Converting Business Partners.

Process flow

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       1.      Execute a test run for the business partner conversion in your development system.

The development system should roughly correspond to the production system in terms of data volume and hardware configuration, so that you can gain a realistic estimation of the runtimes for the individual reports in the conversion tool.

The test run should also show whether you will have to import other notes or make adjustments to the Customizing settings.

       2.      After you have ensured that the business partner conversion runs trouble-free in the development system, you then transport any corrections you have made to the test system.

       3.      Execute a second test run in the test system.

The data in the test system must match the data in the production system exactly. This is the only way to guarantee that any unclean data is discovered and cleaned up before you carry out the conversion in the production system. Incomplete data records are not converted by the reports in the conversion tool, but are output as errors in the log. Before you begin with the conversion in the production system, the reports should have run without errors in the test system.

       4.      If the business partner conversion has run without errors in the test system, execute the conversion in the production system.

The following graphic illustrates the process and the factors to be taken into consideration during business partner conversion:

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Note

Execute the test runs and the conversion in the production system as described in Activities for Business Partner Conversion.

The activities contain only the steps that are relevant for the four phases of business partner conversion in the standard system. As your system may have additional special features, you may need to carry out additional steps. Each step requires you to have carried out all previous steps (providing they are relevant for the release to which you want to upgrade). You can find the relevant release for each activity in Guidelines for Converting Business Partners.

 

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