Symptom
When you migrate Customer Data or Supplier Data into your system, after validation, system throws below warning messages:
Customer Data Migration:
General: value XYZ in column Supplier Name will be truncated; edit source value
Supplier Data Migration:
General: value XYZ in column Account Name will be truncated; edit source value
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Business Configuration work center.
- Select Implementation projects view or Overview
- Search and Open Migration of Customer or Migration of Supplier.
- Execute the respective migration file.
Cause
The standard system behavior during Customer/Supplier migration with account names / Supplier names >40 characters is a truncation. During migration Validation step, you are being notified on the truncations with above warning message
Resolution
This is a warning message and is to notify that the name will be truncated to 40 characters. You can continue with your migration but after migration only 40 characters of the Account/Supplier name will be available in the system
Keywords
KBA , value in column supplier name truncated , account name will be truncated , migration of customer , migration of supplier , SRD-MD-BP-SUP , Suppliers , How To