Additions were made to the functions for replicating and synchronizing business partner data. By replicating and synchronizing business partners, you can synchronize business partner data from SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) with the data of customers and vendors in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA). The new feature is that replication of customers from SAP ERP to SAP CRM is now also supported. In addition, the contact person is also included during business partner replication and synchronization. To perform this synchronization, the system makes use of the existing functions of CRM Middleware, in addition to the customer and vendor integration. During business partner replication using CRM Middleware, other function modules are now used.