Create vendor with LSMW/BAPI on S4HANA

[Former Member]

Dear expert,

Has anyone ever create LSMW project or ABAP program to create vendor in S/4 HANA ? Please give me instruction.

Note: I don't want to use LTMC.

Thanks all.

[VeselinaPeykova]

Actually you create a business partner with roles FLVN00 and FLVN01, you don't create vendors as separate object like in ECC.

May I ask why you do not want to use LTMC?

For simple projects LTMC+LTMOM does the job well.

Of course there are alternatives like SAP Data Services.

If you really wish to create your own upload program I guess you can use the API that is linked to the BP migration object as a starting point (sorry, no access to a S/4HANA system at the moment).

For older S/4HANA versions there were uploads of BP data via LSMW, there is even a blog on the topic (Uploading Business Partner Data using LSMW). Still, considering that the first paragraph states in large red font not to use this approach for versions newer than 1511 I would not use this idea unless I am really out of options.

I hope that you have read SAP note 2287723 - LSMW in SAP S/4HANA on-premise which states

"The use of LSMW for data load to SAP S/4HANA is not recommended and at the customer's own risk."

This means that if you decide that the use of LSMW is unavoidable in your project you need to test thoroughly the uploads and ensure data consistency.