Lead Association to account

[Former Member]

Hi guys,

when trying to associate a lead to an existing account, the account search doesnt find the right account. What are the search conditions for finding relevant accounts?

br mike

[gabriel_brage · Accepted solution]

Hello Michael,

Usually in such cases the duplicate check scoping question was not selected correctly.

Could you please try the following?

Go to the Business Configuration work center.

1. Select the Scoping question General Business Data -> Business Partners -> Handling of Business Partners
2. Check the questions on duplicate check

You could set it strong / medium / weak which would determine how the duplicate check is enforced. Be aware that this applies to all business partner creations e.g. duplicate check during account creations will also respond to these settings.

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Best Regards

Gabriel Brage

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gabriel,

we do have the exact same configuration "medium":

Any other suggestions?

br mike

[gabriel_brage · Accepted solution]

Hello Michael, the medium configuration showed was just an example, in your case please change the configuration to Strong.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gabriel,

but if I understand it correctly, the validation gets even "harder" when we set it to stronger. So if we cant find the similar customer with the "medium" setting, we wont find it with "strong".

Is there a documentation what "low" "medium" and "strong" means in particular?

br Michael

[gabriel_brage · Accepted solution]

Sorry Michael, my bad, you are correct. Please set it to Weak and perform a test. Here you can find further details:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/cea15f900ca04c4faa35d3044577fe27/1705/en-US/1882f2c5763d10149f0dc5a0ca61...

Best Regards

Gabriel Brage

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gabriel,

ok thanks. I do understand what you mean, but I think (as you can see on my 2 screenshots), that there is an issue with the current duplicate check (independent from the weak/medium/strong configuration), as an account which has the nearly same name => "pjsc yuzhkabel works" won't be found by the check although the name of the account is the same in the lead => "yuzhkabel".

br Michael

[gabriel_brage · Accepted solution]

Hello Michael,

In case you change it to weak, is the system finding the "pjsc yuzhkabel works"?

In case it is not, then we have an issue, otherwise I think this is just related on how the system perform the check. Because if we take a look, this account does have 17 letters, and only 9 of them are similar to the original result yuzhkabel, so system considered that this match is not relevant enough.

Best Regard

Gabriel Brage

[gabriel_brage]

Hello Michael,

Could you provide us more details about the behavior? Some screenshots would help.

Best Regards

Gabriel Brage

[Former Member]

any update on this one?

br Michael

[Former Member]

Hi Gabriel,

of course.
When trying to associate the Account "Yuzhkabel" no similar account ist listed.

But when we have a look in the account list in the account workcenter, we can find a very similar account:

br mike