Creation of Intercompany Vendors and Customers in SAP MDG

[Former Member]

Hi MDG experts

Is it possible to create Intercompany Vendors and Customers via MDG ? In other words, when creating a Vendor record, it must also be created as a Customer and vice versa. In the SAP ECC system, the Account Control section has a field to store the Customer / Vendor ID. Thus creating them as Intercompany Vendor / Customer.

How can this be achieved ?

Please advice.

Regards

Neelesh

[Former Member]

If I understand correctly, you are looking to create a customer automatically when creating a vendor and vice versa. MDG 7 supports that. If you look into the data model (Metadata About the Data Models), you will see that LIFNR is defined in KNA1 (entity BP_CUSGEN) and KUNNR is defined in LFA1 (entity BP_VENGEN).

[Former Member]

Thanks Abdullah,

The metadata link you shared doesnt really match , the descrption in your response. Could you advice, from where to fetch current business partner metadata for MDG 7.0 ?

[Former Member]

That is the MDG7 metadata. When you open the zip file, you will see three spreadsheets: BP, Customer, & Supplier.The Customer spreadsheet contains the LIFNR field. Similarly, the Supplier spreadsheet contains the KUNNR field.

[Former Member]

Hi Abdullah

Thanks for the response.

In which case, when a Vendor record is created, the vendor ID will be entered in the Customer ID field indicating it to be an Intercompany Vendor. Similarly when a Customer record is created, the Customer ID will be entered in the Vendor ID field indicating it to be an Intercompany Customer.

So, it seems in such a case, the Vendor record and Customer record will have to be created within the same BP record, linked by some Account Group value. Is my understanding correct ?

Also, will this display different screens for Vendor and Customer master data records being created under the same BP ?

Regards

Neelesh

[Former Member]

I am not sure if it will display a detail screen of a customer or vendor. Why don't you try it and let us know what you find out?

[Former Member]

Hi

in MDG BP is always created first ( On Top of vendor or customer).

Guess It is possible to create Vendor and Customer both from One BP as MDG uses CVI Integreation. But Abdullah is correct person to comment on this.

[Former Member]

Which MDG version are you implementing?

[Former Member]

Hi Abdullah

We are looking at SAP MDG 7.0 SP02 version.

Regards

Neelesh