Vendor Hierarchy on SAP IS Retail project

[pat_pillay]

Hi Everyone,

Please can you help.

Has anyone implemented SAP Vendor Hierarchy in IS Retail and is there a tool for mass load processing of the Hierarchies as part of migration?

We have approximately 9000 hierarchies to take on but no standard tool ? Has anyone done aa ALE of the hierarchies to other SAP systems?

Your feedback would be appreciated.

Thank you

Pat

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Pat

Please refer to

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1069115

Hope it will be helpful to you.

Kind Regards.

George

[pat_pillay]

Hi George,

Thank you.  The link relates to the BW import which i will also need to look at.

My question however is how to import the VH from a legacy system into SAP ERP system and to then distribute the VH to other SAP ERP systems.

[Former Member]

Hello Pat,

Thanks for your reply.

For the issue of Data mirgration from a legacy system into SAP ERP system Could you please try to use the SAP LSMW?

For What is SAP LSMW ? please refer to

http://www.saptraininghub.com/what-is-sap-lsmw/

For LSMW Data Migration – Step by Step

http://www.saptraininghub.com/lsmw-data-migration-step-by-step/

Otherwise, you can refer to the SAP official documents.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/87/f3ae74e68111d1b3ff006094b944c8/content.htm

For the data transfer from a SAP system to another SAP system,

please try to use the SAP Data Transfer Workbench.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/Helpdata/en/0d/e211c5543e11d1895d0000e829fbbd/content.htm

Hope it will be helpful to you.

Kind Regards.

George

[Former Member]

Hi Pat,

Did you get an answer to your question. Is their mass maintenance capability to mass change Vendor Hierarchy data? I mean as you said, the hierarchy data could get huge and manually maintaining 9000 vendor family set is next to impossible. I checked in XK99 and LFMH is not listed as a table default.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Thanks,

Ashvin

[pat_pillay]

Hi Ashvin

I was not able to get an answer to my question on SCN. However we are aware there are no standard  message category for distribution of Vendor Hierarchy (per SAP Note 778903). We used LSMW to perform initial loads only. Maintenance going forward was going to be manual using standard transaction codes.

·         SAP Note 1570405 - Performance MKH1

·         SAP Note 1622855 - MKH1 - Performance and display of customer hierarchy

   SAP Note 778903 - FAQ: New transaction to maintain "vendor hierarchy

Regards

Pat

[Former Member]

Thanks a lot Pat for your response. We are on  ECC 6 Support pack 06. So these notes are already included in our support pack release. However, I do have a question related to the FAQ note.  

In that it states, that customers in Release 5.0 or higher should use the newly developed tcode MKH1N. I know MKH1N allows unlimited hierarchy levels whereas MKH1 allowed only 4 levels. But aside from this restriction, do you see any other downside in using MKH1 with release 606 or higher? I do like the display layout of vendor hierarchies in MKH1 better than MKH1N.  I just don't understand how SAP does not have a mass maintain capability as maintaining a multiple tier hierarchy with thousands of vendors is just going to be manually impossible.