Migrating Business Partner Relationship with S/4HANA Migration Cockpit

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Relationship to existing contact persons is out of scope in Customer migration object. In order to migrate BP Relationship new Migration Object should be created. In this blog post you will learn how to do it.

Function Module BAPI_BUPR_CONTP_CREATE is using to create a contact person relationship between two business partners. The system checks that the specified business partners exist. The business partner that you enter in the "contact person" parameter must be in the "person" category.

1 Create new Migration Project. In LTMC t-code choose Create, fill Name and Mass Transfer ID.

2 Run LTMOM t-code. Open your migration project and create new user-defined migration object.

Menu Project – Create Migration Object – User-Defined – Migrate Data Using Files/Staging Tables. Go thought wizard steps as follow.

3 Create source structure. Append new structures below to lower level.

S_BUPR Business Partner Relationship fields

Key	Name	Data Type	Length	Column Header
X	BUSINESSPARTNER	CHAR	10	Business Partner
X	CONTACTPERSON	CHAR	10	Contact Person
	FUNCTION	CHAR	4	Function of partner
	DEPARTMENT	CHAR	4	Department at business partner
	COMM_TYPE	CHAR	3	Communication Method (Key) (Business Add

 

4 Set up structure mapping as follow.

Source Structure	Target Structure	Access Type	Mapping Type	Source Cardinality	Target Cardinality	Data Path Type
S_BUPR	HEADER	LOOP AT TABLE	1:1 Relation	1	1	Default Path
S_BUPR	R_BUSINESSPARTNER	Mapping only	1:1 Relation	1	1	Not Applicable
S_BUPR	R_CONTACTPERSON	Mapping only	1:1 Relation	1	1	Not Applicable
S_BUPR	R_VALIDFROMDATE	Mapping only	1:1 Relation	1	1	Not Applicable
S_BUPR	R_VALIDUNTILDATE	Mapping only	1:1 Relation	1	1	Not Applicable
S_BUPR	R_CENTRALDATA	Mapping only	1:1 Relation	1	1	Not Applicable
S_BUPR	R_ADDRESSDATA	Mapping only	1:1 Relation	1	1	Not Applicable

5 Map Fields according data in table

Import Parameter	Parameter Value	Rule	Target Field
Target Structure R_BUSINESSPARTNER
SENDERFIELD	S_BUPR-BUSINESSPARTNER	MOVE	BUSINESSPARTNER
Target Structure R_CONTACTPERSON
SENDERFIELD	S_BUPR-CONTACTPERSON	MOVE	CONTACTPERSON
Target Structure R_CENTRALDATA
SENDERFIELD	S_BUPR-FUNCTION	MOVE	FUNCTION
SENDERFIELD	S_BUPR-DEPARTMENT	MOVE	DEPARTMENT
Target Structure R_ADDRESSDATA
SENDERFIELD	S_BUPR-COMM_TYPE	MOVE	COMM_TYPE

 

 

Save and generate run time object.

6 Run LTMC t-code, open your project, created migration object and download Template.  Populate data as follow.

BUSINESSPARTNER	CONTACTPERSON	FUNCTION	DEPARTMENT	COMM_TYPE
Business Partner*	Contact Person*	Function of partner	Department at business partner	Communication Method (Key) (Business Add
17100001	17910007	0005	0003	TEL
17100002	17910006	0001	0002	TEL
17100002	17910005	0003	0004	TEL

7 Go through migration steps. As result Contact Persons should be assigned to Business Partners.

Thereby we have created Contact Person assignment Migration Cockpit object.