Joining two businesspartners

[Former Member]

Hi all,

we are in a situation where a customer requests the ability to join two BusinessPartners into a resulting BusinessPartner eg. when two companies merge.

The customer requires the ability to view the all historical data from the resulting BusinessPartner and eg. open invoices from the two BusinessPartners need to be visible from the resulting BusinessPartner.

All views and ideas on this are more than welcome.

Thanks in advance

Jesper Carstensen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jesper,

An easy aproach could be to create a UDF for marketing documents(U_MDNewBP). Then asign the new BPs code to every marketing document which has the old BP codes. So, when you need to do a historical search, you could use this field, and the standar one for new searches.

Furthermore, you could create another UDF (OCRD.U_NewBP) in the BP master data form. There you could asign the NewBP code. Then create a formated search, which updates all marketing documents U_MDNewBP for the actual BP. Make it execute when OCRD.U_NewBP is changed.

This way, all the process will be automatic.

Regards,

Ibai Peña.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ibai

Yes, that is indeed an aproach. The problem with this aproach is, that as far as I can see, I'll have to reprogram all (or most) of the standard SAP BO reports that search for a BP to use the new fields in stead of the original CardCode.

As an example if you take the account balance from the Business Partner Master Data it should be reprogrammed to show the postings from both the joined Business Partners

Best Regards

Jesper