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mubeenashfaque
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I'm writing this blog to explain in detail the process of migrating Business Partner Customer Master via the Migration Cockpit in S4 HANA 1709.

With the introduction of S4 HANA and its different iterations (1510, 1611 and 1709) we found out that LSMW will no longer be supported for data migration. As a result, there is a majority of master data that can no longer be migrated via LSMW. However, during our implementation of S4 HANA 1709 we discovered that LSMW can still be used to migrate some data from legacy system.

How do we discern between objects that can be migrated via Migration Cockpit and LSMW? It’s quite easy. All objects that are provided within the Migration Cockpit framework for migration cannot be migrated via LSMW. For e.g. the list of objects in MC 1709 are;




























































































































































































































































































































































































































Business Object Name Area Business Object Type Migration Cockpit Object Name Technical Object Name
Activity Type CO Master data Activity type SIF_LSTAR_CREATE
Cost Center CO Master data Cost center SIF_KOSTL_MASTER
Activity Price CO Master data Activity price SIF_ACT_PRICE
Internal Order CO Transactional data Internal order SIF_INTORDER
Profit Center FI Master data Activity price SIF_PRCTR_MASTER
Bank Master Data FI Master data Bank SIF_BANK_MASTER
Customer FI, SD Master data Customer SIF_CUSTOMER
Customer FI, SD Master data Customer – extend existing record by new organizational levels SIF_CUST_EXTEND
Supplier FI, MM-PUR Master data Supplier SIF_VENDOR
Supplier FI, MM-PUR Master data Supplier – extend existing record by new organizational levels SIF_VEND_EXTEND
Accounts Receivable (Customer) Open Item FI Transactional data Accounts receivable (Customer) open item SIF_AR_OPEN_ITEM
Accounts Payable (Vendor) Open Item FI Transactional data Accounts payable (Vendor) open item SIF_AP_OPEN_ITEM
Fixed Asset FI-AA Master data + Transactional data Fixed asset incl. balances SIF_FIXED_ASSET
G/L Account Balance FI Transactional data G/L balance SIF_GL_BALANCES
G/L Account Open/Line Item FI Transactional data G/L open/line item SIF_GL_OPEN_ITEM
Exchange Rate FI Master data Exchange rate SIF_EXCH_RATE
Inventory Balance MM-IM Transactional data Material inventory balance SIF_INVENTORYBAL
Material Master LO-MD Master data Material SIF_MATERIAL
Material Master LO-MD Master data Material long text SIF_MAT_LONGTEXT
Material Master LO-MD Master data Material consumption SIF_MAT_CONSUMP
Material Master CO Master data Exceptional case: Material Price Chng for global currencies SIF_MATPRICE_CHG
Material Master MD Master data Material – extend existing record by new organizational levels SIF_MAT_EXTEND
Material Master CA-CLF Master data Material classification SIF_CLF_MAT
Material Master QM Master data Material inspection type * SIF_INSP_TYPE
Material Master SLL-LEG Master data Material – Commodity code SIF_MAT_COMMCODE
Purchasing Info Record MM-PUR Master data Purchasing info record with conditions SIF_PURCH_INF_V2
Purchasing Info Record MM-PUR Master data Purchasing info record SIF_PURCH_INFREC
Purchase Order MM-PUR Transactional data Purchase order (only open PO) SIF_PURCH_ORDER
Pricing Condition SD, CO, MM-PUR Master data Pricing condition SIF_CONDITIONS
Contracts (Purchasing) MM-PUR Transactional data Purchasing contract SIF_CONTRACTS
Scheduling Agreement MM-PUR Transactional data Scheduling Agreement SIF_SCHED_AGRMNT
Source List MM-PUR Transactional data Source list SIF_SOURCE_LIST
Sales Order SD Transactional data Sales order (only open SO) SIF_SALES_ORDER
Sales Contract SD Transactional data Sales contract SIF_SD_CONTRACT
Batch QM, SD, PP-PI Master data Batch (if Batch is unique at material level) SIF_BATCHES
Bill of Material (BOM) PP Master data Bill of material SIF_BOM
Work Center PP, QM Master data Work center SIF_WORK_CNTR
Routing PP Master data Routing SIF_ROUTING
Equipment PM Master data Equipment SIF_EQUIPMENT
Functional Location PM Master data Functional location SIF_FUNC_LOC
Maintenance Task List PM Master data Equipment task list SIF_EQUI_TL
Maintenance Task List PM Master data Functional location task list SIF_FLOC_TL
Maintenance Task List PM Master data General task list SIF_GENMT_TL
Maintenance Plan PM Master data Maintenance plan SIF_MAINT_PLAN_2
Characteristic CA Master data Characteristic SIF_CHARACT
Class CA Master data Class SIF_CLASS
Commercial Project Management (CPM) CA-CPD Master data CPM project SIF_PROJECT
Inspection method QM Master data Inspection method SIF_INSP_METHOD
Master inspection characteristic QM Master data Master inspection characteristic SIF_MSTR_CHAR
QM catalog code group/code QM Master data QM catalog code group/code SIF_QM_CATALOG
Inspection Plan QM Master data Inspection plan SIF_INSP_PLAN
QM selected set QM Master data QM selected set SIF_SELECTED_SET
QM selected set code QM Master data QM selected set code SIF_SELSET_CODE
TRM – Financial Transaction FI-FSCM-TRM-TM Transactional data TRM – Foreign exchange spot/forward transaction – contract SIF_TR_FX_TR
TRM – Financial Transaction FI-FSCM-TRM-TM Transactional data TRM – Foreign exchange swap – contract SIF_TR_FX_SWAP
TRM – Financial Transaction FI-FSCM-TRM-TM Transactional data TRM – Interest rate instrument SIF_TR_IR_INSTR
TRM – Financial Transaction FI-FSCM-TRM-TM Transactional data TRM – Interest rate swap SIF_TR_IRDE_SWAP


“Getting started with the S/4Hana Migration Cockpit (OnPremise)” (Jörg Knaus, 2017. https://blogs.sap.com/2017/02/28/getting-started-with-the-s4hana-migration-cockpit-onpremise/)

 

From this list we can infer that consultants/users working on Sales and Distribution can migrate Business Partner Customer Master via Migration Cockpit, but for Condition Master migration standard LSMW recording can be used. Along with Condition Master I have also migrated Batch Search Strategy via LSMW on 1709 on-premise.

To get started with Business Partner migration, the trick is in the template. Migration Cockpit provides structured migration templates; such is also the case for Customer Master and Customer Master Extension.

The Customer Master template contains a number of sheets, each sheet has mandatory fields marked with (*) which must be filled. One of the mandatory fields is the Customer Number field.



In most cases I’ve seen and actually used internal number assignment for customer master in ECC 6.0 all EhP versions. However, after the introduction of Business Partner and Migration Cockpit there was a bit of confusion with regards to Internal or External Number assignment. On one hand Business Partner Configuration (will explain in detail in another blog) Internal Number assignment is allowed, whereas the migration cockpit template requires a customer number as a mandatory field.

(There is a reason for this customer number to be mandatory on the template; it serves as the unique identifier to link data in all sheets to the general data in the first sheet. This is further explained below with screenshots).

During our project, the client’s requirement was for Internal Number Range for various Customer Account Groups. We had configured the Business Partner accordingly, but the real challenge was getting those numbers on the template or to have the migration cockpit generate the internal numbers, we also needed a unique identifier to link the data between sheets. This was achieved by assigning a number series to the customers in the same range as the Internal Number. For e.g. if the internal number range was based on 10 digits 1999999999, then we assigned 0000000001 to the first customer.



We had also tried assigning the actual internal number range (based on assumption) and the data was migrated with the same numbers, however the above was found to be an easier and risk free method.

If custom account groups (Z account groups) are being used instead of the standard. Then, the same can be mentioned in BP Grouping and Customer Account Group fields and the data will be mapped accordingly.

For migration you do not need to fill all sheets with data, as you can see in the screenshots I have coloured a few sheets red, these are the sheets that I did not need any data from. We are going to maintain minimal data for the creation of this customer master.









This is all the data maintained for General Role. Moving on to the sales area data;



 

Note the customer number is same as provided in the general data. Fill in the whole of sales area data in this sheet and move to the Sales Partner Sheet.

All customers are created with four (default) partner functions (additional partner functions can be added as required) in this sheet the partner roles are maintained as below;



The customer numbers are repeated four times to assign each partner role to that customer. Similarly, the Customer ID is repeated again in the next column and with it the Partner Description is provided.



After this we move to the Company Code Data.



Our template is now set with minimal data to create a Customer Master that can be used to process Sales Documents.

Migration Cockpit:

Create a migration cockpit project for Business Partner Migration.



We are using the on-premise edition of S4 HANA 1709.

Within each project, you can activate one or multiple migration objects.



Once the migration object is created, you can start by downloading the master data template and upload the files for import



I faced problems with the template at this stage, as I had downloaded a template from a different migration object and provided that template to the client to maintain Master Data. When I tried to upload that same template on another/new migration object, I received an error regarding the active version for that particular migration object. To overcome this, you have to download the template from the active migration object and maintain the same data in the active sheets (we copy pasted everything from the maintained templates to the active templates).

Now upload the active template to the migration object.



Select and activate the file, then start validation by clicking “Start Transfer”.

Post validation, any errors, warnings, or information messages are displayed in the notification section.





I had purposefully left some incorrect data on a few of my sheets, in this case you have to remove this data from the template and go back to step one. First deactivate the file, delete it, then re-upload the file, activate and re-validate.

Confirm mapping values from the file to the values on SAP.



The template contains an external number for the customer; however, we need internal number assignment so the mapping is maintained as below;



Click on save and the internal numbers will be generated in sequence.

Click next to simulate import of the file.



Any errors, warnings, information messages will be displayed in the notification section.

Click next to Execute Import.



Once completed click on Finish to complete migration of Business Partner Customer Master.

This concludes the migration of Business Partner – Customer via the Migration Cockpit.

Please let me know in your comments if this was useful. Also, do share your ideas/suggestions to make this process better and easier, or if I have missed anything please do let me know.

Thank You.

 
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