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  • 1.  MK02 - Updating Vendor Contact Persons

    Employee
    Posted 04-05-2019 11:17
    Hello Community! 

    Asking for a customer ... They would like to engage in a Data Clean up exercise to delete obsolete contact persons from the vendor account using MK02. 

    The Tcode does not reliably position on the right line if there are duplicates in the Name Column. 
    I have not found a BAPI to accomplish deleting contact persons. 

    Any suggestions on how to delete such items reliably?

    The Name field at the bottom can be used to position but it always picks the first among many.
    Thanks and looking forward to your ideas
    Jayasri

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    Jayasri Varyani | Solutions Engineer
    Winshuttle North America |
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  • 2.  RE: MK02 - Updating Vendor Contact Persons

    Posted 04-08-2019 17:24
    ​Hi Jayasri

    One way we have done this type of cleaning in the past was to develop two Winshuttles: 
    • One Winshuttle to download the data from SAP to Excel [we call these "Report Winshuttles"]
    • A second Winshuttle to upload the changes from Excel to SAP.
    • If you know the vendors that need contacts refreshed, provide a vendor list to the download Winshuttle.
    • Use the Excel function to remove exact duplicates.  
    • Use the upload program to blank out all contacts.
    • Use the upload program to load the refreshed data.
      If you have the data owner SME's [data steward's] doing the cleansing in Excel, you can break up a large clean up into bite-sized pieces [250 records per SME per day/week].  As you get the cleansed work packages back from the SME's, you clear out the old contacts, and load the refreshed contacts.  Your data cleanse becomes more of a project management task, but it get the job done and the people who "know" the data approve each batch.  Any SAP screen that does not position well, this method work on, just don't make the work packages too big for the SME's.

    Geed luck,

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    Robert D Thomas | Supply Chain Advisor / Project Manager | Master Data Governance
    Southern California Edison (SCE) | 626-665-8313
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  • 3.  RE: MK02 - Updating Vendor Contact Persons

    Posted 04-09-2019 04:28
    I have used the MAP2  Transaction to edit  Vendor Contact details, (VAP2 for Customer Contacts) but I'm not sure if this would work for deletion.

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    Sarah Cullingworth | ISP Business systems - SAP
    Bradford Metropolitan District Council |
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