Extraction of Supplier and Customer Master Data (Earlier ERP Releases)

If your supplier or customer master data is stored in systems with ERP releases lower than SAP Business Suite Enhancement Package 5, you have the following options for extracting the data:

For ERP releases 4.70 and higher, use the transaction MDM_CLNT_EXTR. With this transaction, the data is extracted as an IDoc with the message types CREMDM for supplier and DEBMDM for customer.
For releases lower than 4.70, use the transaction Send Vendor BD14 or Send Customer BD12. With these transactions, the data is extracted as an IDoc with the message type CREMAS or DEBMAS accordingly.

Prerequisites

You have configured the ALE distribution model as follows:

You have configured the respective message type.
You have created an XML port and assigned it to the recipient system.

Activities

Start the transaction Send Vendor, or the transaction Send Customer, or the report MDM_EXTRACTION.
Enter your selection criteria.

With the transactions Send Vendor and Send Customer for each master data record, an individual IDoc is created in XML format that can be imported on the server side in data import. With the transaction MDM_CLNT_EXTR you can determine how many master data records you want to put in a single IDoc.

More Information

For information on the extraction of master data objects, also see SAP Note 1035601.