Customers / Vendors not relevant for Business Partner and future migration to S/4HANA

[Former Member]

Hi,

I've just started the planning for conversion of Vendors and Customers in ECC to Business Partner. The ultimate goal is of course to migrate to S/4HANA in the near future. I would love to have an answer for this question though, as it will impact my plan quite substantially.

We have quite a lot of Vendors and Customers that are blocked and they are inactive. What happens in the future migration to S/4HANA if we do not archive all of these MasterData objects? We don't need the MasterData record in S/4, so I don't want to convert them to a Business Partner in ECC - but what happens if they're inactive Customers / Vendors in ECC but not archived?

Will the migration step to S/4HANA fail? Will it require the records to be either converted to BP first in ECC, or to be archived for the full migration to S/4HANA to go through?

Lots of thanks and all the best,

Susanne

[JonathanEemans · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You are correct. Check out question 4 in knowledge base article 2713963 - FAQ: CVI - Customer Vendor Integration for system conversion to S/4HANA

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Is it mandatory to synch the customers/vendors flagged to be deleted or archived to BP?
Yes, it is mandatory to synchronize ALL the vendors/customers created in ECC. Otherwise, it will not be possible to carry out the technical system conversion.
Therefore, before the synchronization for all customer/supplier data without restrictions, SAP recommends archiving the customer/supplier with the deletion flag. You can find more information about this process in the following paths:

• Archiving Customer Data: See help.sap.com → Human Capital Management → HR Renewal 2.0 → Feature Pack 4 → Archiving Customer Master Data (FI-AR, SD)
• Archiving Supplier Data: See help.sap.com → Human Capital Management → HR Renewal 2.0 → Feature Pack → 4 Archiving Vendor Master Data (FI-AP)
• Archiving in Customer/Supplier Integration: See help.sap.com → Enterprise Management → SAP ERP 6.0 → Business Partners → SAP Business Partner for Financial Services → Functions → Master Data Synchronization → Customer/Vendor Integration Archiving in Customer/Supplier Integration

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Best regards,
Jonathan Eemans

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Jonathan for your help!

[JonathanEemans · Accepted solution]

My pleasure.
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