Vendor Replication from ECC to SRM

 To replicate vendors from ECC to your SRM system so that no vendor issues arise.

The 3 different ways that can be used for Vendor Replication are:

• T-code BBPGETVD
• T-code BBPUPDVD
• Report BBP_VENDOR_SYNC

Here is a description on each & the best times to use each: 

1. BBPGETVD is a transaction for initial replication of Business Partners. It should ideally be a one-time activity. BBPGETVD can also be scheduled as a job to run in the background if you have vendors being created on and often at your R/3 system. You can schedule the BBPGETVD to run once in 14 days or as per your convenience. This can be achieved using the report BBP_VENDOR_GET_DATA_JOB which in turn calls the BBPGETVD transaction and does the same job of replicating vendors. It can be run as background job.

2. BBPUPDVD can be scheduled as a job in the background for the same reasons with a definite time period. So it can run in the background using BBP_VENDOR_UPDATE_DATA_JOB and you will not be required to do this manually .

3. BBP_VENDOR_SYNC will replicate new & changed vendors. BBP_VENDOR_SYNC and BBP_VENDOR_UPDATE_DATA_JOB are different ways to synchronize the SRM business partner with the R/3 business partner. BBP_VENDOR_UPDATE_DATA_JOB allows to retrieve selected vendor master records, compare the data to the existing business partner records and in case of changes adopt the changes to the business partner. This keeps in track all the data that was used in the initial load of vendors.

Customizing 

Below is customizing path for BBPGETVD/BBPUPDVD and BBP_VENDOR_SYNC:

  SPRO...>
     SAP Supplier Relationship Management     
            SRM Server       
              Technical Basic Settings          
                 Settings for Supplier Synchronization            
                   Information on Automatic Download from Marketplace
                   Define Global Settings
                   Define Settings for Each Backend System

Please make sure all settings maintained well before using them.