Hi SRM/MM Experts,
While replicating vendors with duplicate DUNS from SAP MM server to SAP SRM(version 5) server in our SAP landscape, below error message is encountered and logged in transaction SLG1(Object : BBPGETVD) in the SRM server, leading such a vendor from not successfully replicating to the SRM server :
Vendor Already Exists Business Partner:<Vendor account ID> Dun & Bradstreet Number:<DUNS number>
The vendors having multiple offices/branches are providing procurement services to our organization, hence vendors with different addresses with same DUNS number needs to be created with multiple vendor IDs in our SAP MM server however such vendors IDs with duplicate DUNS are been repeatedly left out from replicating to SRM ending up into the above mentioned error. This renders such vendors unavailable for SRM purchases and derails our procurement framework model.
The question is - Is it fundamentally not possible to replicate SAP vendors IDs with duplicate DUNS from SAP MM to SRM 5 and if so why ? If no, could you please suggest what possible steps needs to be taken by our organization's team to get past the above mentioned error ? If yes, is this limitation being overcome in SAP SRM 7, which can make SRM 7 upgrade drive attractive for us ?
Also, is there any SAP Note and/or SAP standard documentation and/or SAP wiki available about this topic giving more insight into SAP's perspective and rationale on the DUNS validation in the SAP architecture, if so please share the same with me.
Many thanks for your feedback, suggestions, feasible workarounds and support in advance.
Best Regards,
Vivek