To get your data D-U-N-S numbered you send all your customer and business partner data to D&B for rationalization. Rationalization means that D&B will match all customers and business partner to the unique D-U-N-S number.

The rationalization process requires a flat file listing all your customers and business partners. The flat file also contains necessary address and sales revenue information:

• The address data is needed by D&B to match the customer to the unique D-U-N-S number. For the identification, the customer name and address is required.
• The sales revenue of a customer is used as a measure of the importance of the customer to your company. This measure influences the effort D&B takes to match the customer. The sales revenue is derived from the standard Sales InfoCube 0SD_C03, which is filled from R/3 or from another 3^rd party transaction system.

To create the flat file:

1. Select transaction rsmonitor_db.
2. Click on Rationalization.
3. Choose the query I_0SD_C03/0SD_C03_QDB001 for selection of customer and business partner data. Use of this query for rationalization is compulsory.
4. Click on the Execute icon.

A dialog box for country selection appears.

5. In the dialog box, choose the required option:

• If the rationalization process is supposed to be tested, you can choose a country for which you would like to extract all customers.
• If the customers extracted are for dispatch to D&B, it is absolutely essential that you do not choose a country.

D&B processes the file and matches your customer and business partner data to the D-U-N-S number.