SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL - create customer

Question

Hi All,
I am using SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL for creating a customer.It is working fine for a single sales area.
But my requirement is to create the same customer for 2 sales area. I am filling knvv structure for the sales area.But as this is a structure i am not able to fill two sales areas.
I tried calling the first SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL for creating in first sales area and second SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL changing and creating the second sales area.First call is working , but for the second call it throws an exception that "Key already exists".
Please suggest me how to create a customer for multiple sales areas.I will reward all helpful answers.
Thanks,
Anoop

Answer 1

Hello Anoop
In a current project I am faced with exactly the same requirement. The customer wants the debitor created in all divisions of a sales organisation.
My approach to this is as following:
(1) For creating the debitor I use BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDAT1.
For calling this BAPI you have to provide a reference customer. The new customer is created for the company code and the sales area of the reference customer.
I do not yet commit work meaning that the debitor exists only in the buffer.
(2)
next I call function module SD_CUSTOMER_MAINTAIN_ALL with the next sales area. Important: this function module <b>can access the debitor in the buffer!</b>(3) If I do not get any error from the BAPI and the function module I commit the work.
Result: the debitor is created in 2 sales areas.
The reason why I do not commit after the BAPI call is that the task should be done "all or nothing", i.e. create the debitor in all sales areas or none.
Regards
  Uwe