Deduplicating a Business Partner

When you create a business partner record you can check to make sure you are not creating a duplicate of an existing business partner.

  1. Enter the transaction code /NBP to create a new business partner.
  2. Create the new business partner.
  3. When you are done entering information, press the F8 key or click the check icon.
  4. If the address you entered is not valid, you are prompted to choose a valid address.
  5. If a record in the system is similar to the record being created, the deduplication window is displayed. This window shows the candidate duplicate or duplicates of the record you are creating.
    • Click Continue to ignore any duplicates displayed in the pop-up and create the new record.
    • Click Switch to Duplicate to display the selected candidate duplicate and cancel the creation of the current duplicate.
    • Click Display Partner to view the selected duplicate record. After viewing the duplicate record click the back button to return to this window.
    • Click Create Cleansing Case to merge the two records manually using the transaction code /NBUPA_CLEAR. This option allows you to choose which record is the source record and which one is the target record for the merge.
    • Click the red X to cancel the deduplication process.