How to create a Ship-to customer in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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Symptom
• A Ship-to customer BP master record needs to be created in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
• A BP has been created and it needs to be a Ship-to party only.
• When selecting the ship-to BP role, it is not possible to maintain sales area data.
• When saving the general data of the ship-to, the following error message 'Customer-specific data were not saved due to error' (CVI_API 003) is encountered.
• When trying to create Business Partners with role CRM002 though API_BUSINESS_PARTNER,fails and produces an error: R1/275 No authorization to create partner in role.

 

Resolution
1. Create a BP Grouping and assign to it a Number Range which will create a customer with the Ship-To Account Group SHPT.
Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges

 

2. Assign the SHPT account group to the Grouping in the Configuration Activities called Define Number Assignment for Direction BP to Customer

 

3. Open the App Maintain Business Partner or App Manage Business Partner Master Data or App Manage Customer Master.

 

4. Select the role FLCU00 - Customer or FLCU01- Customer Fin Accounting. (Not CRM002 Ship-to Party).

 

5. The customer master record will now be created with the Ship-To Account Group SHPT only.