Plant replication issue in SRM

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We replicated around 70 plants from ECC to SRM.Each plant coressponds to unique company code only.

The only similarity in all the plants is the adress details.

After replication,faced the red error for about 5 plants out of the 70 stating "Location Already Exists, Partner: 00100025XX Plant: 1090 System: DE1XXXXXXX The Plant is a Duplicate in the same System Plant: 36XX".

I maintained the Search term field in the adress details of those 5 plants and then replicated them from ECC to SRM.Those 5 plants got replicated succesfully.This was in Development environment.

In quality system when i try to replicate the plants,am facing the same red error for 50 out of the 70 plants.

I have checked in table BBP_LOCMAP and i find no entries related to plants which are said to be duplicate.

Please advise.

Thanks in advance

Supriya

[Former Member]

Hi Supriya,

Once replicated plant address data etc should be maintained using

the browser transaction 'Manage Business Partners' BBPMAININT.

For the plants that you have identified in R/3 as having the same

addresses I would recommend that in SRM you alter the addresses

slightly so that they are not the same.

You can do this in SRM using BBPMAININT-> Maintain Business Partners

enter the plant business partner number for 'Location' and then edit.

In SRM after replication you must only use this transaction for

maintaining plant data.

I hope this helps you.

Kind Regards,

Edel.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Please find all of the information on plant replication and maintenance

below.

Firstly, see the note:

563180 Locations - Replication of R/3 plants

1. BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL should be run once in your system.

This cannot be scheduled as a report.

2. For further replication of plants, please use

BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED.

3. The reason for the error BBP_LOCATION004 is due to duplicate

address data for plants. The system will check all address fields and

look for duplicates, if any are found the system will issue this

message and the plant will not be replicated.

4. Once replicated plant address data etc should be maintained using

the browser transaction 'Manage Business Partners' BBPMAININT.

Please set this transaction up as a browser transaction

for the SRM admin user.

5. Plants can also be created in SRM using this transaction BBPMAININT.

The can be assigned to R/3 plants.

See note 563108:

"You can also create individual locations via the Web transaction

'Managing Business Partners' and assign them to an R/3 plant."

Hope this information clarifies your issue.

Kind Regards,

Edel.

[Former Member]

Hi Edel,

Thanks for your response.

We have used BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED to replicate the plants.

I had a question say plant TEST exists in SRM system.We make modifications to Plant TEST in ECC system.next can we use BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED to replicate plant TEST to SRM system.Will it overwrite the existing plant TEST in SRM.

Kindly let me know your inputs.

Thanks

Supriya

[Former Member]

Hello Supriya,

As advised by Edel we can manually change the address in SRM.

Also, you can schedule the report 'BBP_LOCATION_SET_T001W_NAME' it would update NAME1 & NAME2 fields in SRM from backend.

Hope this helps.

Ashutosh

[Former Member]

Hi Edel and Ashutosh,

Thanks for your valuable feedback.

Your inputs helped.