IS-M Business Partner Migration to SAP Business Partner

[Former Member]

Hi everybody,

Could somebody explain me how is the procedure to migrate business partners when there are master records in ERP?

At this moment, I´m working in an IS-Media implementation, the customer has ERP 6.0 in operation (customer master and vendor master are actived). The Business Partner Migration to SAP Business Partner documentation says: "SAP business partner master records must not already exist in the system when you perform business partner migration.You will also not be able to use the migration tool if you already use the SAP BP in other SAP components. If your system already contains SAP business partner data, the migration reports will terminate with an error message. You must delete this data before you can perform migration. You can do this using report RJGBUPDELE1."

The team project think that deleting data is not the better way because it could be too risky... Do somebody know how to solve this issue?

Thanks in advanced for your help.

[CarstenJ · Accepted solution]

Hi Miyuki,

the migration tool was created to convert existing business partners from the former IS-M specific business partner management into SAP business partners.

If there are already existing customer master and vendor master records in the system then these records are not changed by the migration tool.

In fact in an ERP6.0 system the migration tool can only be used to quickly setup the customizing assignements between the SAP business partner customizing and the IS-M customizing (e.g. customizing for marital status or form of address).

But this can also be done manually with the corresponding IMG activitites.

If you start with IS-M on an already running ERP system then I recommend the following:

1. Set up the customizing of the SAP business partner

2. Set up the customizing of the business partner in SAP for Media including the assignements mentioned above.

3. Check the assignements with transaction JGZ0

4. Activate the SAP business partner in IS-M using transaction SM30 on view JYVTJY00_SAPBP.

Precondition for this procedure is that there exists no SAP business partner (which can be checked by searching for entries in table BUT000 - there should be no entries).

This precondition is exactly the same as the one mentioned in the documentation quoted by you. But please to not mingle the SAP business partner with customer master or vendor master. They are technically distinct objects.

Btw: you can convert already existing customer masters or vendor masters into SAP business partner using transaction JUCDCM.

Regards,

Carsten

[Former Member]

Dear Carsten,

First of all, thanks for your help. With your explanation I´ve just understood the purpose of the migration tool. I was confused about it. Actually, my case corresponds to a running ERP 6.0 system, which of course has customer and vendor masters that we want to convert to SAP Central Business Partners, in order to include IS-M typical roles apart from customer and vendor ones.

We think that we need Central Business Partners because our system has many company codes, some of them in which IS-M applies, but not in other ones, although business partners do operate in all company codes.

I´ve red something about transaction JUCDCM, in fact I made some tests, but now I´m interesting in using the Badi ISM_BP_DEB_CRED_MIG. Have you ever used it? I red that it allows to have more entry parameters in transaction JUCDCM, in order to define with details the destiny role in which you want to convert customer/vendor masters. The problem that I have at this moment it´s that although an Abap developer helped us to build the Badi, we don´t note any change in transaction JUCDCM... Do you have some documentation about the Badi?

Again, thanks in advanced for your help.

Regards,

Miyuki Quiroz.