Integration of customers and vendors- customer exit for renaming

[Former Member]

We are planning to use customers for capacity reservation functionality and vendors for subcontracting in APO.

Due to this, we will need Vendors and Customers in APO.

Currently some plants are using same number range for customers and vendors.

So, we will have to rename either customer number or vendor number.

In such situation, do you recommend renaming customer number or Vendor number?

Do you see impact of renaming customer or vendor in above processes?

Can you please e-mail me which customer exit I should use and steps that should be followed for renaming?

Thanks,

Srini

[frank_horlacher]

Your problem:

Different location types with the same name or number in the external system. For example, a customer and a supplier both have the number 1000. This problem occurs especially with vendor and customer numbers.

You can do the following:

described in SAP Note 458914.

Activate BAdI Implementation for Location Prefix

Procedure

1. Access the activity using one of the following navigation options:

SAP SCM Menu Tools  Customizing  IMG  Execute Project  SAP Reference IMG  SAP Implementation Guide  SCM Basis  Integration  BAdIs for Specific Applications  Location and Business Partner  BAdI: Inbound Processing for Location

Transaction Code SPRO

2. In the Business Add-Ins: All Implementations for Definition SMOD_APOCF001 dialog box, go to the Defined filters table and select the suitable implementation for your problem situation, for example:

Field Name Entry Value

Bus. add-in implementation name APOCF001_TYPEDIF

Implementation short text Locations of different type with similar names

3. Choose Change.

4. Confirm the warning message.

5. On the Business Add-In Builder: Change Implementation APOCF001_TYPEDIF screen, choose Activate business add-in implementation.

6. In the Prompt for transportable Workbench request dialog box, enter a workbench request and press ENTER.

7. Choose the Back pushbutton (F3) twice.