When you create a business partner record you can check to make sure you are not creating a duplicate of an existing business partner.
- Enter the transaction code /NBP to create a new business partner.
- Create the new business partner.
- When you are done entering information, press the F8 key or click the check icon.
- If the address you entered is not valid, you are prompted to choose a valid address.
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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.