Guidelines for Converting Business Partners
Important Information in the Overview
Carrying Out Business Partner Conversion
Activities for Business Partner Conversion
Business Partner Conversion (Phase 0)
Reading Documentation and Checking Technical Requirements
Reading Data Model Documentation for the SAP Business Partner
Cleaning Up Treasury Business Partner Data
Creating and Saving a Dataset
Initializing Reports and Setting Control
Business Partner Conversion (Phase I)
Relevant Tables for the Business Partner Conversion
Generation of Customizing
Initialization of Conversion Control Tables (RFTBUC00)
Initialization of Customizing (RFTBUC01)
Generation of Additional Customizing Tables (RFTBUC03)
Customizing Generation for the SAP Business Partner (RFTBUC02)
Information About Several Converted Customizing Tables
Checking the Customizing Structure
Business Partner Conversion
Business Partner Conversion (RFTBUP01)
Special Features of Conversion Report RFTBUP01
Special Case: Business Partner to Be Linked Already Exists
Conversion of Business Partner Relationships (RFTBUP02)
Special Features When Converting Relationships
Conversion of Notes (RFTBUP06)
Further Information on Notes
Conversion of Industry Sectors (BUPXPRA12)
Conversion of Identification Numbers (BUPXPRA13)
Reconciliation of Business Partners
Determination of Duplicates (RFTBUP03)
Reconciliation of Duplicates (RFTBUP03_2)
Deletion of Duplicates (RFTBUD03)
Business Partner Conversion (Phase II)
Control Tables for the Business Partner Conversion
Table BPUM_DOM – List of Domains to Be Converted
Table BPUM_ROL – List of Data Elements To Be Converted
BPUM Table – List of Table Fields to Be Content Converted
Table BPUM_TAB – List of Obsolete Database Tables
Table BPUM_FUNC – List of Affected Function Modules
Managing the Content Conversion Using Control Tables
Managing the DDIC Conversion Using Control Tables
Activities and Reports to Be Carried Out in Phase II
Manual: Exchange Data Elements Relevant for Conversion
Copying of Control Tables (RFTBUH02_0)
Manual: Exclude Business Partner Numbers from Content Conversion
Determination of Data Elements to Be Converted (RFTBUH02_1)
Manual: Flagging Customer Data Elements for DDIC Conversion
Creating a Transport Request for Converting Customer Objects
Copying of Data Elements to Be Converted (RFTBUH05)
Exchange of Domains in New Data Elements (RFTBUH03)
Exchange of Old for New Data Elements (RFTBUH06)
Reassignment of Foreign Keys (RFTBUH04)
Determination of Fields to Be Content Converted (RFTBUH02_2)
Analysis of Objects Relevant for Content Conversion (RFTBUH02_3)
Content Conversion of Business Partner Numbers (RFTBUP10_BP000)
Content Conversion of Tables with Supplied Reports
Generation of Content Conversion Reports (RFTBUP09)
Content Conversion of Tables with Generated Reports
Releasing a Transport Request
Business Partner Conversion (Phase 3)
Release Business Partner Processing