Business Partner CVI – Master Data Consistency Checks supporting the SAP S/4HANA MOVE

Value Proposition:

Proactive listing and correction of the customer / vendor master data eases the synchronization (BP/CVI) process, thereby enabling a smooth migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.

Business Context / Motivation:

In SAP S/4HANA, Business Partner is the leading object and single entry point to maintain business partner, customer and supplier master data. As part of the conversion from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, customers have to first synchronize their existing customer & vendor data records to the Business Partner. High volume of master data errors during Customer/Vendor to BP Synchronization phase results in laborious iterations of the synchronization cockpit to fix the errors.

Solution:

As of ECC EhP8 SP12^(*), SAP has delivered a standard Master data consistency check report that can be run pretty early in the conversion process (as part of the Preparation phase) that provides an exhaustive listing of the errors / inconsistencies in the existing customer & vendor master data records (with respect to BP data model).

Benefits:

• The report gives the flexibility to identify the errors for a range of customer / vendor records
• To overcome performance issues in case there are millions of customer / vendor records, there is also the possibility to additionally filter by account groups and execute the checks
• The report provides options to choose from a list of business checks or execute all checks
• Forward navigation to XD02/XK02 is possible to fix errors for one-off customer / vendor records
• Outlook: As part of the future roadmap, there is a planned development to perform mass correction with direct / inline navigation from the error log to the respective customer / vendor mass maintenance transactions

(*) The report is also made available for customers in lower releases (until ECC6.0) via NOTE (2743494)

Details:

Report: CVI_MIGRATION_PRECHK

Transaction: CVI_PRECHK

Steps:

• Launch the Master data consistency check report via transaction CVI_PRECHK
• You can execute the checks for Customer / Vendor (one at a time)
• Specify other details:
  • Customer Number Range
  • Account Group
• Select the relevant business checks to be executed (Select-All if all checks are relevant)
• In order to ensure faster processing, specify a Server Group (as defined by your Technical / System Administrator)
• Specify a description for the run; The description also serves as a reference to check the log at a later point in time
• Execute the report by clicking on the “Execute” button at the top
• A new RUN ID would be created which can be seen at the bottom section “Run History”. Click on Refresh until the run is finished
• You can then view the log by clicking on the “Run ID” hyper-link
• As the name suggests, the “Run History” shows history of all the previously executed Runs

Log:

• The log gives the details of the Run with respect to the Object (Customer / Vendor), #records processed & #records in error
• The ALV result table could be filtered / sorted by the Business check / Object ID to see all errors per Object ID or all Object IDs per Error category
• There is a possibility to navigate to the Object Details by clicking on the Object-ID (hotspot) which will navigate to the maintenance screen of the Customer / Vendor
• There is also the possibility to download all errors into an excel / spreadsheet and carry out a mass maintenance via XD99 / XK99

Summary:

With the Master data consistency check report, you can get a quick overview or summary of all errors at a very early stage of the conversion from ECC to SAP S/4HANA. Fixing the errors at this stage will enable a smooth conversion by eliminating the errors to be identified at a much later stage during synchronization to BP.

Watch this space for more updates.