Customer master creation from Business partner

Step 1– Customer Settings

Create Number ranges for customer accounts

Financial Accounting (New)>Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable >Customer Accounts > Master Data > Preparations for Creating Customer Master Data > Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts (XDN1)

Assign Number ranges to Customer Groups

Financial Accounting (New) > Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable >Customer Accounts >Master Data > Preparations for Creating Customer Master Data > Assign Number Ranges to Customer Account Groups

Step 2 – Business Partner Settings

Define BP Roles

Cross-Application Components >SAP Business Partner>Business Partner >Basic Settings >Business Partner Roles >DefineBP Roles Settings for the BP Role – FLCU00 (FI Customer) should be as shown below:

Define BP Number ranges

Cross-Application Components >SAP Business Partner >Business Partner >Basic Settings >Number Ranges and Groupings >Define Number Ranges (BUCF)

Define Groupings and Assign Number ranges

Cross-Application Components > SAP Business Partner >Business Partner >Basic Settings > Number Ranges and Groupings >Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges

Step 3 – Synchronization Settings

Synchronization Objects

Cross-Application Components >Master Data Synchronization >Synchronization Control > SynchronizationControl >Synchronization Objects Do not change anything here

Activate Post Processing Office requests

Cross-Application Components >Master Data Synchronization >Synchronization Control >Synchronization Control > Activate PPO Requests for Platform Objects in the Dialog

Activate Synchronization Options

Cross-Application Components> Master Data Synchronization > Synchronization Control> Synchronization Control > Activate Synchronization Options

Assign BP roles to Customer Account Group

Cross-Application Components >Master Data Synchronization > Customer/Vendor Integration > Business Partner Settings >Settings for Customer Integration > Set BP role for direction BP to Customer

Define Number assignment

Cross-Application Components > Master Data Synchronization >Customer/Vendor Integration > Business Partner Settings > Settings for Customer Integration >Field Assignment for Customer Integration > Assign Keys >Define Number Assignment for Direction BP to customer

Step 4 – Creation of BP & customer from BP

Go to t-code BP, enter your BP name and select correct grouping as configured above.

Tick on create customers in role counterparty

Enter recon account in comany code data

BP & Customer created

XD03 view

Another scenario possible is where your organisation already has customers masters created and requirement is to create business partners from those customers. Watch this space and wait for this scenario demonstration which will be posted soon.

Suggestions/Corrections & comments are welcome

Thanks,

Jyoti

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Jain Varghese August 18, 2014 at 3:45 am

Hi Jyoti,

I’m facing an issue while trying to replicate the above steps.

While doing below customization i’m getting an error. Could you please help me out.

Cross-Application Components >Master Data Synchronization >Synchronization Control >Synchronization Control > Activate PPO Requests for Platform Objects in the Dialog

Error Message.

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Object type ‘CUSTOMER’ is not a platform object,and thus cannot be entered here

Message no. MDS_CTRL_CONTROLLER009

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Best Regards,

Jain

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1. Jyoti Mohta Post authorAugust 18, 2014 at 6:10 am
  
  Hello Jain,
  
  For the above error, please check in the config path
  
  Step 3 above
  
  Cross-Application Components >Master Data Synchronization >Synchronization Control > SynchronizationControl >Synchronization Objects whether the customer has been checked as platform.
  
  If this setting is not there then you need to maintain this.
  
  Let me know if this solved your error.
  
  Regards,
  
  Jyoti
  
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  1. Jain Varghese August 18, 2014 at 6:42 am
    
    Dear Jyoti,
    
    Perfectly working, Thanks for your time,
    
    Regards,
    
    Jain
    
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Morten Winther March 12, 2017 at 12:51 pm

Hi guys – does any of you have experience in setting up the customer to BP sync when the number range for customers is created as Internal and the same number range for BPs is already in use and created as External?

Hope to hear from you

Thanks

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Kaustubh Naik June 22, 2017 at 2:16 pm

Hello Jyoti,

I have a bit different scenario. I have business partners are created in MDG system. And in S/4 system I want to extend their local information. Means Customer – KNA1 is created and distributed to S/4 and using that business partner now I want to Customer Sales View -KNVV & company code view-KNB1. Is is possible to do this by IDoc DEBMAS? What other option do I have?

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Ahmet Berk November 22, 2017 at 1:07 pm

When I want to save my customer master data in sales area, there is a message here and I couldn’t save it. Do you know how to solve it?

You can see messages below.

Customer master data could not be updated

(CVI_API-003). See long text.

Thank you

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Monika Patel April 7, 2018 at 10:35 am
Thanks @Jyoti Mohta

Nice blog.

One question : Which version of S/4HANA used in this BLOG ? Any changes wrt S/4HANA 1709 settings ?

One Suggestion :

You may want to add following pre-steps to the BLOG :
- STEP 0 : Need of and How to CREATE Customer A/C GROUP (Group which needs to be assigned the number-range)
- The SPRO path which I found for Create Customer A/C Group is below : SPRO > Financial Supply Chain Management > Cash and Liquidity Management > Cash Management > Settings for FF7AN and FF7BN > Customer Control > Maintain Customer Account Group
What do you say ?
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