MDM 5.5 Material, Vendor, Employee & Customer Repositories

Hi,
MDM 5.5 comes with object repositories for Material, Vendor, Employee & Customer. Can anyone help me in finding a way to synchronize these with R/3 ?
I am able to see Corresponding IDoc names as data sources in Import Manager for these repositories. But, my question is, what are the steps required for synchronizing with R/3 so that I can import/export these data from/to R/3.
Thanks in Advance,
Rajani Kumar K

look at this doc:
MDME 5.5 - ConfigGuide - MD Consolidation & MD Harmonization
at Quick Link:/nw04installation
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SAP standard, version ECC 6.0. Different plants in use with requirement for differnt authorizations.
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Person A from plant 1000 can display and maintain it (1000001111) but person B from 2000 must not see this, she has DIR 10000011113 instead (and person A should see this).
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Hi,
Can you please elaborate what is the object you mean. I have serious problems with system and cannot check it.
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Hello,
Employee should be treated as Vendor or Customer?
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Thanks

Hi Pari,
In Conpany's point of view, all Employees should be treated as Vendors.
Loan Payment and Advances sould be treated as Other Special GL Transactions for Vendors.
Steps to be followed:
1. Define Alternative Reconciliation Account for Vendors (Here Employees)
Path: IMG/FA/ARAP/Business Transactions/Postings with Alternative Reconciliation Account/Other Special GL Transactions/Define Alternative Reconciliation Account for Vendors
Here you can create Special GL indicator for Loan Payment or Advances: Click Create (F6) and create special GL indicator (L) for Loan to Employees and save the data
DC on the Special GL indicator: L - Loan payment
Here give the following inputs:
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In Special GL account: Give Alternative Recon. A/c to Employees i.e. Loan to Employee A/c (Create this a/c in FS00). (B/S A/c - Assets group). Ex. A/c No. 3000
2. Go to F-02 and post the entry.
Entry will be:
Employee A/c Dr
To Bank A/c
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Alternative Recon. A/c for Employee A/c Dr. (In our example: A/c No. 3000)
To Bank A/c
Note: If you want to deduct TDS, then follow the same procedure for WT for Vendors for Payments.
In this case the journal entry will be:
Employee A/c Dr.
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To Withholding Tax A/c
To Sur charge A/c (if any)
To Education Cess A/c (if any)
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Regards,
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Linking a Raw Material Vendor to Specific Customer

Hi,
How to link raw material vendor to a specific customer in SAP. In make to order cycle, PR generated has reference of the Sales Order. So when this PR is converted to PO, the system should only allow the user to create the purchase order for the vendor specified by the customer.
Edited by: Matt on Sep 28, 2010 9:51 AM - Please don't post in ALL CAPITALS

Hi,
vendor can be linked to customer , in vendor master customer number can be maintained .
Same customer you can maintain master data whereas if you want to link the vendor with PO then at the time of creation of PR
create source with vendor and material combination .
And assign this source determination at PR.

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Hi Suman,
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The key purpose of SAP "enabling" the facility of multiple main tables in a repository is to primarily "manage" those master data objects that are related to each other. Typical examples will be a) Customer - Material, b) Supplier - Material, etc.
While, it is pretty easy to add multiple main tables in a repository, it is also important to understand the purpose of doing so based on the business requirements.
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Dispatch Instructions for Direct Supply from Vendor to Customer.

Dear Experts,
Our Company is Project Industry. We have implmented SAP ECC 6.0 in 2008 with SD, FI, MM, PP, QM, PS, DMS modules.
In our case 70% Deliveries to customer are from direct dispatch from our vendor to Client. Steps are as follows.
1. Buyer issues PO to vendor for direct dispatch to customer. After readiness of material vendor gives Inspection call to Buyer.
2. Buyer creates inspection notification using T-code QM01.
3. Quality department visit the vendors place, inspect the material & clears the inspection notification.
4. After acceptance of material, Project Execution issues Dispatch instructions to vendor with PO No. & Item details. This is Outside SAP in MS word.
5. Vendor Supplies the material to Customer based on dispatch instructions.l
6. After receipt of dispatch document from vendor, Buyer creates Goods Receipt w.r.t. Purchase order in MIGO. We have Put ABAP check for GR creation to check Accepted Quantity of Inspection notification of that PO line item.
Now our Management wants to Implement above Step No. 4 of creation of dispatch instructions in SAP. At the time of creation dispatch instructions, system shall check if inspection notification is created & allow the creation for accepted PO line item quantity in the notification & only after the inspection notification is closed in SAP . Dispatch instructions should have information such as PO No., Line item no., Material Code, Material Description & quantity to be dispatch, Vendor Name, Project Name.
As per my knowledge in Standard SAP Dispatch Instructions Process is not there.
Request you to give your valuable opinion.

dispatch instructions can be put into a long text at header or item level, just depends if they are item specific or apply to all items of the PO.
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Posting Loan to Vendor Employee

Dear Experts,
We're in 4.7. We have a requirement where we need to keep track of loan payment of all our individual employees. Is it possible to post the loan payment in payroll individually to each and every corresponding vendor employees ? Any input will surely be appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
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Hi
You can do the following.
1.Define your employees as vendors and attach the employee code to respective vendor.
2.Define Symbolic Accounts
In this step, you create the symbolic accounts that you require for posting to Accounting.
A symbolic account has the following characteristics:
A four-character alphanumberic code
A descriptive text
An account assignment type (AA type). This defines the type of posting (posting to expense account, posting to payables account, and so on) that applies to the wage types that are posted to the symbolic account.
An employee grouping for account determination (EG) indicator
The following table shows what kind of account and what transaction is linked to an account determination type and what additional information (for example, for cost assignment) is also included in the posting transaction.
AA type Meaning Transaction Additional fields
C posting to expense account HRC cost assignment
CN posting to expense account HRC cost assignment
without quantity   without quantity
R posting to expense account HRC
if accounting is installed in
R/2 System.
F posting to bal. sheet account HRF
FL posting to bal.sheet account HRF
for checking balance
in retroactive accounting
(recalculation difference account)
FO posting to bal. sheet account HRF
(original periods for
wage types whose amount
cannot change
retroactively)
Q posting to bal. sheet account HRF personnel number
with personnel number
D posting to personal   HRD acc. determination
customer accounts   with personnel number
DF posting to fixed customer HRD direct assignment
    of customer account
L posting to customer HRD acc. determination
account(for specific loan)   with personnel number
    loan type,
    sequential number
K posting to personal vendor accounts HRK acc. determination with
    personnel number
KF posting to fixed vendor HRK direct assignment
acc.   of vendor account
Note the following with regard to account assignment types:
In the standard system, no quantities are transferred from wage types in the payroll result to the payroll documents and the resulting accounting documents, although information on quantities is available on the report log for report RPCIPE00 (or RPCIPX00). It is also possible to modify the system to access this information. The account assignment type CN is only useful if you have made this modification and if, in certain instances, you want to suppress the transfer of quantity information.
The account assignment types FL und FO are only of use if there are cross-company code transactions. For more information on customizing cross-company code transactions, refer to Posting to Company Code Clearing Accounts.
We recommend that for symbolic accounts with account type FO, you determine the account in Accounting independent of the Employee grouping for account determination (Feature PPMOD). For this reason, only one G/L account is provided for the payment of wages and salaries as standard. If you determine this G/L account depending on the employee grouping for the account determination, this can lead to inconsistencies when posting the retroactive accounting results. This is due to the fact that when posting retroactive accounting results for wage types that cannot change retroactively, a technical posting takes place (for example, for the wage type Payments (/559)). Since this technical posting usually takes place in the same account in Accounting, it balances to zero and does not appear in the posting document. However, if you determine this account independently of the employee grouping for account determination, and an employee falls in a different employee grouping due to a retroactive change in the HR master data or feature PPMOD, the technical posting cannot balance to zero because two accounts are affected in Accounting. This is why you have to make changes manually in this case.
Example
The wage types Basic pay and Overtime both represent personnel costs and should therefore be posted to expense accounts. You also want to assign these wage type amounts to Cost Accounting objects. Both wage types are dealt with in the same way as far as posting is concerned and can therefore be posted to the same symbolic account. You must specify the account assignment type C, since, in Accounting, there should be a posting to expense accounts and Cost Accounting should be provided with information.
Requirements
You have carried out the step Define Employee Grouping for Account Determination
Standard settings
Symbolic accounts are already set up in the standard system. In this step, you can modify these to meet your requirements.
Recommendation
We recommend that you do not change the definition of the symbolic accounts. If changes to the definition of the symbolic accounts are necessary, you should map the changes using new symbolic accounts.
Activities
1. Check that the existing symbolic accounts meet your requirements. Note the EG indicator. If this indicator is set for an account, posting to this account also considers employee grouping for account determination. With the exception of the key (column SymAcc), you can change the default values.
2. To create additional symbolic accounts, choose New entries
3. To delete unnecessary symbolic accounts, mark the account and choose Edit -> Delete.
Further notes
Symbolic accounts are not country-specific.
3.Assign Vendor Accounts
In this step, you make the settings required for posting to vendor accounts.
There are two kinds of vendor accounts available:
Fixed vendor accounts: Employee grouping for account determination offers the most precise means of control for posting to fixed vendor accounts.
Employee vendor accounts: Posting to employee vendor accounts enables posting for a specific personnel number.
In this step, you make entries in table T030 for the assignment of vendor accounts to symbolic accounts.
Example
Fixed vendor account
You want to deduct dues to various unions from the employees in your enterprise. For each union, you have set up a specific wage type for dues and a specific symbolic account. In this step, you assign a fixed vendor account to each of these symbolic accounts.
Employee vendor account
You want to post dues to a different vendor account for each employee. To this effect, you have created a symbolic account for all employees. In this step, you specify how the corresponding employee vendor accounts are determined.
Requirements
You have created the required vendor accounts in Financial Accounting.
You have carried out the step Define Symbolic Accounts. In that step, you created symbolic accounts with the relevant account assignment types (KF for fixed vendor accounts, K for personal vendor accounts). In that same step, you flagged the indicator EG-depend for symbolic accounts to which you want to post in line with the Employee grouping for account determination.
If you want to post to employee vendor accounts, you have entered the relevant personnel number in one of the following fields in the vendor master data of Financial Accounting. We recommend that you use the Personnel number field. If you use another field, you must enter the personnel number with leading zeros.
Personnel number
Search term
Telephone 2
Data line
Teletext number
Standard settings
There are no standard settings for posting to vendor accounts. If, in the step Define Symbolic Accounts, you have not created any symbolic accounts with the account types KF or K, you do not have to carry out the step Assign Vendor Accounts.
Activities
1. Enter the required chart of accounts.
2. To make settings for the posting procedure Personnel posting to vendors (HRK), choose Rules
3. Choose Posting key. Enter the posting key for postings to vendor accounts or copy the default values (21 for debit posting and 31 for credit postings).
4. Choose Accounts. Make the corresponding entries in the table T030.
a) If you want to assign a fixed vendor account to a symbolic account, and if required, an employee grouping, enter the number of the vendor account in the Acco column.
b) If you want to assign an employee vendor account to a symbolic account, and, if required a employee grouping, enter the relevant key (see table below) in the Acco column.
Personnel number in field (Vendor master data) Entry in the Account column (T030)
Personnel number    *0002
Search term    *0001
Telephone 2    *0003
Data line    *0004
Teletext number    *0005
Further notes
It is not possible to use the special G/L indicator with posting to customer accounts.
in summary whatyou do is defne a symbolic account of type K , link your wage type to this sym account , define the posting to vendor with *0002
regards
Pravin

Validation to avoid special character in material & vendor no

Hi Experts,
We receive material & vendor creation request through E-portal. Once user send request on portal it gets recorde at its backend i.e MDM
Please guide me how to give validation in MDM to avoid special character '*' ',' '&' 'space' in material no. & incase of vendor code these same character & numeric code is not allowed.
Please guide in deatail step by step procedure.
Regards,
Gaurang

Hi Gaurang,
How to give validation in MDM to avoid special character '' ',' '&' 'space' in material no. & incase of vendor code these same character & numeric code is not allowed*
For this, you can write two validations one for Material number and other for Vendor Code and need to set both of these validations to Automatic Execution = Error
Expression for Material No as given below:
IF(FIND(Material No, "*") OR FIND(Material No, ",") OR FIND(Material No, "&") OR FIND(Material No, " ") , FALSE, TRUE)
Expression for Vendor Code as given below:
IF(FIND(Vendor Code, "*") OR FIND(Vendor Code, ",") OR FIND(Vendor Code, "&") OR FIND(Vendor Code, " ") , FALSE, TRUE)
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Hi,
We have requirement for Notification.
At the time of creation of manual Notification (T-code: QM01). Once we enter Material & if this material is ROH then system should go in source list (t-code: ME03) to select available vendor of material. If material - vendor relation exist in source list then system should automatically display vendor code in Notification creation screen.
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Tom.

hi
Use QQMA0007
This customer enhancement allows you to define default values when you
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Time of call-up:
On the initial screen (program SAPLIQS0, screen 0200) after the possible
call-up of an initial screen.
Note
If you want to add your own fields to the VIQML view, you must include
them as an APPEND structure in table QMEL. In this way, the additonal
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See also: EXIT_SAPMIWO0_001.
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Hi All,
what is the importance of the tabs like vendor and customer in t.code md04? Could you please explain me...
Thanks
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Hi Krish,
In MD04,you see requirement of material.
Whenever there is Purchase order & Sales order created,you will find relevent Vendor & Customer name respectively when you go for Vendor & Customer tab. When you double click on Vendor It shows you details of Vendor.
Just try & Check it.
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Hello to all,
I have made a report which takes a range of document dates and querys the bkpf on the basis of bldat(and query bseg on basis of the retrieved belnr). Now want i need is to add another selection(lifnr in case of vendor and kunnr in case of customer) so that if i want to see a particular vendor or customer, i can see only those record(line items).
i tried querying the bseg on basis of lifnr , but i get only those line items (vendor line item or customer line items)
i want all the line items..
How to do it ?
Help needed..Thanks..
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Hey,
Accounting document data is stored in the below tables:
BKPF - Header
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BSIS/BSAS - Open/Cleared GL Items
Follow the logic below:
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Select (BELNR) data from BKPF based on BLDAT
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hello
our client is asking for getting profit center in the vendor and customer line items where in the view FBL5n and fbl1n we are not getting the profit center populated - in the new gl i understand that there is a standard report based on the gl account.
but our business is not satisfied with the report and expecting report at profit center level.
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regards,
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Dear Vijay,
Let me provide you my view of solutioning for this. This is an enahcement that needs to be done
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2. Existing the profit center field is not populated in the BSIK,BSAK,BSID and BSAD tables
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4. This will help you to do the vendor line item wise selection in the FBL1N, FBL5N profit center wise.
Constraints of this solution:
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Regards,
Bharathi.

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Can anybody tell me the tcodes in SAP for Vendor/Gl/Customer Account Statement with opening balance.
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hii
As per my knowledge no such reports for GL are there in sap.. we also had a same requirement but could not find it... we wanted reports with opening and closing balalnces...
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