How to merge vendor/customer into one BP

[kane_xin]

Dear expert:

During CVI, if the vendor and customer belong to a single company, and would like to merge them into 1 BP, how to handle this case, can someone help provide some information/blog/note, thanks.

Best Regards

Kane

[michael_piesche]

See SAP notes:

• 2363892 - Linking Customer and Vendor to a single Business Partner during initial load before upgrade to S/4
  https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2363892/
• 2773288 - Customer and Vendor should link to same single Business Partner during initial load
  https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2773288
• 2968536 - Harmonize the behavior for Linking Customer and Vendor to a single Business Partner
  https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2968536

" Prerequisites:
" The Customer and Vendor must not already be linked to separate Business Partners (that is, either Customer or Vendor should have a Business Partner linked to it, or neither should be linked to a Business Partner, but not both). This solution is applicable only when there is already a link table entry for either Customer or Vendor.
" 1. The Customer and Vendor must be linked through the Customer number field in the Vendor table and the Vendor number field in the Customer table.
" 2. The Customer and Vendor must contain exactly the same Postal Address information.
" 3. If the Customer and Vendor have the same Bank Account information (same Country, Bank Key and Bank Account), then the remaining fields for this entry must also match.
" 4. During the legal entrity mapping if the customer contact or vendor contact exists, it will mapped to the same Business Partner and will be available in relationships tab

" Solution:
" To link to a single Business Partner along with Contact Person data, we have a new BAdI implementation (CVI_MAP_LEGAL_ENTITY) for CVI_CUSTOM_MAPPER. During the process of creating a Business Partner for a Customer or Vendor, it checks whether a Business Partner already exists for that business entity. If yes, then it links to the same Business Partner if the prerequisites mentioned are cleared.
" The checks mentioned form the template provided in the default BAdI implementation. If these checks do not suit the business requirement, the customer can create their own implementation or extend this default implementation.

[kane_xin]

thank you Michael, I will check

[michael_piesche]

xinkane522, if possible, please give an update about the solution to the issue or whether new or other issues have come up.

[kane_xin]

OK， the process is on-going, I will update the result to you later when it complete. thank you.

[colin_cheong]

Please explain a little more on your business and objective.

The vendor and customer can be linked up thru one of the master file.

[kane_xin]

For example:

In ERP system: there is Vendor:123, customer:456.(Maybe they have same number like Vendor:123, customer:123) Actually, they are belong to a some company called XXX.

After conversion to S/4 HANA, we want only 1 BP have 4 roles, 2 for vendor, 2 for customer.

So, how to make this happen, any tool or configuration required?