Performance in BP and Opportunity Creation

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

I have a requirement to create BP's and Opportunities by uploading the data from a flat file in CRM 6.0 environment.

For this I have developed a program to upload a file and created BP's and Opportunities by using BAPI's. But my concern is process time is very slow it is taking 24hrs to create all 10K records. I appreciate if any one can help in performance point of view.

FYI I scheduled Background job and it took 24hr to process all 10K records. Is there any thing to do to speed up the process?

Thanks and I appreciate for your response.

Raj.

[Former Member]

Hi Raj,

Why don't you use the standard functionality External List Management which allows you to create BPs and documents?

Regards,

Susana Messias

[Former Member]

Hi Susana,

External List Management!! is that a SAP standard program? Can you please explain in little bit more detail?

Thanks,

Raj.

[PaulW]

Hi,

ELM is standard and allows you to upload a flat file from the web ui and to create buisness partners and activties or leads.

This is the corresponding page in the online help:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/43/1fde88d7923566e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm

As far as I know, there is no support for opportunities though. Of course you could create an opportunity from a lead, but that might not be the best performance wise.

An other solution would be to use the LSMW to create business partners and opportunities via the XIF interface. There are XIF IDOC for both business partners and business transactions, which covers the opportunities.

I guess it would also be possible to call the function modules behind the IDOCs directly from a custom abap program. The advantage over the BAPIS is that you could create several business partners in one call, which should improve performance. But I do not think that this is officially supported by SAP.

Regards,

Paul