You use the report Upload Suppliers from an SAP ERP System (/SRMSMC/GET_ERP_SUPPLIER) to perform an initial upload of supplier master data from your SAP ERP systems when you first set up the SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management system. You can upload vendors and creditors from the vendor master in SAP ERP, which are subsequently created as business partners with the supplier role in the SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management system.

Once you have performed an initial upload, we recommend that you maintain new supplier master data in the SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management system only and distribute this data to the relevant back-end systems. For more information, see Transfer of Suppliers to an SAP ERP System.