Same customer and vendor number

[Former Member]

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this question, but I'll give it a try......

We are using BP and want to use same number for both customer and vendor. How can we achieve this?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi, this depends on the release.

If the BP you talked about is ERP Business Partner.

Starting with ERP 2005, a Master Data Synchronisation functionality has has been released.

Look in

/SPRO

/Cross-Application Components

/Master Data Synchronization

/Customer

/Vendor Integration

/Business Partner Settings

/Field Assignment for Customer Integration

/Assign Keys

Alain

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Do you know if there is something more to be installed on the ECC 5.0 system for the SAP for the Customer/Vendor Integration to be available?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The synchronisation is not available in ECC 500.

FS-BP has a synchronisation solution based on call transaction in batch-input. It should be part of the core.

But I don't know if there was a solution to synchronize the numbers without modification.

Anyway you can implement a BAdI in the customer master transaction to use your own numbers (CUSTOMER_ADD_DATA)

BUT make sure the customer/vendor number will be linked to the correct address

The saving process of the address is trigerred independantly (before or after the customer/vendor transaction is commited). As a result it is very easy to create orphaned address and loss of data accuracy for the vendor/customer.