Customer creation through Web service portal in ECC

Question

Hi All,
We have a requirement where we have to Create/ Change Customers (Tcode XD01/ XD02) in ECC through Web service portal linked with RFCu2019s.
1.      There is standard FM for this SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL, But SAP standard functionality/ notes recommend not to use this FM for such requirements.
2.      Since we have periodic configuration changes for Customers, The option for using BDCu2019s is also ruled out.
3.      Since we have to do the error handling and reporting back to web service portal end as well, Using IDocu2019s also looks tricky at this moment.
Please suggest ways to accomplish this. Any input is welcomed.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,
SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL is used in standard during the maintenance of a consumer using the standard customer master data transaction XD01 & XD02.
It is not intended to be used out of the transaction and in no case it should be used out of its original context. Due to the specificity of the function module, out of the original context we may face limitations and data inconsistencies.
This is precisely what you will face in your case.
For the maintenance of customers, there is NO BAPI and NO direct function module.
There are some functions modules like the one above where the name is looking nice. But these should not be used.
Below ECC 2005 (6.00), the only solution was batch input and DEBMAS idocs. See [note 384462|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/384462]
Starting with ECC 2005 (6.00) and above: a synchronisation tool has been introduce. See class CMD_EI_API and VMD_EI_API
Hope this helps
BR
Alain