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BP master data update issue

Former Member
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We are facing an issue if we make a change in the Business Partner master record (example payment method), the contract changes to a new validity date. This has impact on the billing process, because if business tries to bill the former period they will get error message with remark that customer/vendor is not valid for this period. How to make billing not to be impacted by master data changes to enable business to use older periods even  if the master record was changed.

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former_member196871
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This is bizarre, I am not sure why this is happening. BP master data changes should not, in any case; change the data at contract.

Anyhow, if there exists an active contract for the business partner in a particular role any negative changes to the validity period can't be made, i.e. if the validity period for the business partner in a role is 01.01.2010 to 31.12.2010 it can't be changed to 01.02.2010 - 31.07.2010 but it can be changed to 01.01.2009 to 31.12.2013. You may also refer the SAP note 1569723.

It would be helpful if you share your case in detail.

Former Member
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Hi Hardik,

Thanks for the reply. The case is as mentioned below:

1. Example the BP validity is 01.01.2001 - 31.12.9999

2. Changes are made in the payment method of the BP on 10.12.2013 and then FD08 is being done.

3. Then the BP has two new validity periods 01.01.2001 - 09.12.2013 and the active record is now 10.12.2013 - 31.12.9999

4. Now it is not possible to account rental contracts and extra expenses for the period before 10.12.2013.

Any pointers to where this change is getting affected in REFX would be helpful.

Thanks,

Neel

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nova
Explorer
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sounds like you are tracking BP's changing history, so every time a critical field has been updated, a new validity will be created.

I am not quite sure how you should deal with the different validity, but you may think about the following solution:

- do not update the payment method in BP master

- use posting parameters in contract, in your example, create a new posting term starting from 10.12.2013, and use the new paymnet method

hoe it helps.

Former Member
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Hey Swapnoneel!

Its been a long time that you have returned on SCN.

Well your issue is very complicated to understand but can you please check that after changing the data in BP, what all changes do you observe in the table of Customer master,business master and Contract master.

First note all the entries in these three tables before changing and after changing the BP data.Analyse them and let me know whether you find anything surprising there.

Regards,

Sid

Former Member
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Hi Siddharth,

Thanks for the reply. The case is as mentioned below:

1. Example the BP validity is 01.01.2001 - 31.12.9999

2. Changes are made in the payment method of the BP on 10.12.2013 and then FD08 is being done.

3. Then the BP has two new validity periods 01.01.2001 - 09.12.2013 and the active record is now 10.12.2013 - 31.12.9999

4. Now it is not possible to account rental contracts and extra expenses for the period before 10.12.2013.

Any pointers to where this change is getting affected in REFX would be helpful.

Thanks,

Neel