"External BP number has already been assigned"

[Former Member]

Execution of t-code BP, results in the following error for each vendor and customer with the same "external" number .

External BP number 100000 has already been

assigned for business partner 0000000045

Display this message for this business partner

again?

If No is selected, the error will still display as soon as the transaction is run again for each BP (200 duplicates = 200 error messages to click through prior to displaying the business partners), as well as each time a "duplicate" business partner is selected.

Therefore, other than the issue outlined above, please indicate any other issues that will arise from having the same customer and vendor number range defined in ECC, and note that 30,000 existing vendors and 3,000 existing customers exist for this client.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello David,

This usually happens, when in the feeder system some customers and vendors have the same number, so this are only seemingly duplicates. The message is not really an error message, it does not prevent you from doing anything, it is only an info message, but a fairly superfluous one. If it really disturbs you, open an OSS message and ask SAP for a correction

BR Martin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

And there is no negative side effect of having same external numbers twice. GTS is using always the GTS internal BP number in all processing. BR Martin