BAPI for creating customer?

[Former Member]

Hi!

Is there any BAPI available to create proper customer master records in the system.

I know we do have the functions in group V02D available like BAPI_CUSTOMER_CHANGEFROMDATA1 but OSS note 390045 states that these should only be used for the Online store.

Does that bring us back to using BDC's even in "R/3 Enterprise"?

Is SAP ever going to change or just charge millions for their licences and come out with new and fancy GUI's each time.

[Former Member]

Hi!

Is there any BAPI available to create proper customer master records in the system.

I know we do have the functions in group V02D available like BAPI_CUSTOMER_CHANGEFROMDATA1 but OSS note 390045 states that these should only be used for the Online store.

Does that bring us back to using BDC's even in "R/3 Enterprise"?

Is SAP ever going to change or just charge millions for their licences and come out with new and fancy GUI's each time.

[andreas_mann3]

Hi,

there's no "proper" or complete solution for

creating/changing customer master data :

neither bapi... nor report rfbide00...

-> our solution is BDC resp. call Transaction

(XD01/XD02/FD32)

regards

AM

[jakob_steen-petersen]

Hi,

The BAPI´s are allright i think, but otherwise you can use IDOC (messtyp DEBMAS). I use the IDOC interface for importing customers and it goes allright.

/Jakob

[Former Member]

hi!

Are we talking about the same BAPI or is it a different one that you are referring to?

[jakob_steen-petersen]

Hi,

Yes and can see what you mean when i read the note... then i propose you use the IDOC!

/Jakob

[Former Member]

Hi there!

In our 46C system, we use function SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL to create/change customer master data. Since the function can not be called via RFC, we have encapsulated this function in a z-function. The z-function has the same parameters as SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL. It calls the SAP-function, gives back its returncodes and if CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL did not deliver errors, executes a commit work, because the adress-data in CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL is stored only on commit. We're using this z-function in our productive environment since a year ago, and until now, had no problems.

Hope this helps, greetinx, Kathrin!

[Former Member]

Hi Again!

Internally the SAP BAPIs for online store also use this function - so the workaround was exactly what you are referring to.

Was just a bit too disappointing though to go through the trouble of the "big upgrade" and still do what we did 5 yrs back!

Thanks for your help again.

Regards,

[Former Member]

Hi the Bapi BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1 can be used for creating customers.. can company data also be created using this.

Regards

Edited by: Vinithra Iyangar on Mar 5, 2009 10:40 AM

[Former Member]

In BAPI_CUSTOMER_CHANGEFROMDATA1 you should provide a reference customer of all the accouting data relevant to the customer.

Regards,

Joan

[Former Member]

Hi

check this bapi

BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA

Hope this helps you

Regrads,

Rajani