Regarding Customers numbers

[Former Member]

Hello all,

Are the customer and vendor numbers same in all companies. For example say Circuit City's customer number in Sharp electronics SAP R/3 system is 74023 . Will the customer number of Circuit city be the same i.e. 74023 in Sony electronics SAP system too. My friend told me thats how it is and there is a specific company which assigns the master data numbers.

Regards,

Shirish

[Former Member]

Hi,

NOPE. Not at all. Every business organization (different company...not company code) has their own system and where is the question of maintaining the same vendor and customer numbers....You need not listen to learn about this from anybody...take yourself as an example. You will receive bills from gas/electricity/telephone dept,/ home appliances companies etc....do you see your account number unique on any or all of these bills? no way....so, just ignore looking at others as experts on everything....:-)

Regards