loading programs

[Former Member]

I have a few loading requirements ahead of me. What are the best programs to load customers and material master?

[Former Member]

There are various ways by which you will be able to load the data for customer & material.

Direct load programs

BAPI

LSMW

last but should go for this only if all the above fails is custome program....

You will get lot of information on all of the above in the forum or even in SAP help.

Hope this helps

Rgds

[Former Member]

Well I searched the forum before posting here and did not find a correct answer. Before I make a decision on what method to adopt, which LSMW method is most efficient? BAPI, Direct Input or something else.

Is there no SAP program that can be used to upload materials and customers.

[former_member156446]

My Ranking will be a BAPI first and then LSMW

[former_member632729]

Hi,

we have N number of methods in SAP to upload the data into SAP..

One of the Best method is BAPI

BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA -> material master

BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATE -> customer master

other methods:

1.LSMW

2.BDC (call transaction / session methods)

Edited by: Raghunath Shyamala on Mar 17, 2009 2:29 PM

[ThomasZloch]

I would always use LSMW as the mapping tool, with object 0020 (loading program RMDATIND) for material and object 0050 (loading program RFBIDE00) for customer master.

You can also use BAPIs or IDocs with LSMW, but that requires additional IDoc customizing which may not pay off just for this purpose (unless your system is configured anyway for IDoc processing).

Thomas

P.S. LSMW and BDC, BAPI etc. are not alternate ways to load data, LSMW is a data mapping tool that integrates all these loading techniques.

[Former Member]

I could not find BUS0020 or BUS0050 in SWO1

[Former Member]

How about other master data objects like vendors

[ThomasZloch]

These are not business objects. Go to LSMW step 1 "maintain object attributes", under "standard batch/direct input" you can find objects 0020 and 0050, as well as vendors and maybe others you are interested in.

Thomas

[Former Member]

Megan, whats your source system? (SAP, Non SAP)

Depending on this the you will require to take decision.

Regards

Shital