Symptom
- Wrong master data has been created which need to be archived/deleted.
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After deletion of role customer from business partner, the business partner still appears as customer in Maintain Business Partner tile.
- Within the app "Maintain Business Partners", field "Central Deletion Flag" within the Supplier BP Role is grayed-out.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Reproducing the Issue
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Open the App Maintain Business Partner.
- Search for any BP.
Resolution
- Refer to link Blocking, Unblocking and Deletion of Business Partner, Customer and Supplier Master Data on how to block, unblock or delete business partner, customer and supplier master data.
- After the residence period is completed and data is blocked, it either remains in the database or is stored in an archive.
- If the blocked data remains in the database, the data manager can delete the blocked business partner, customer and supplier master data from the database using the corresponding archiving objects.
- Refer to the test script under scope item "Data Protection and Privacy (5LE)" for more details.
- The business partner master data can be deleted once the associated customer and supplier master data has been deleted from the database.
- To destroy data from archives, you can use the ILM Data Destruction app so that the data can no longer be retrieved.
- For more information about the ILM Data Destruction app, see ILM Data Destruction.
N.B.
After deletion/blocking the Business Partner the Business partner cannot be replicated anymore to the system. Therefore the described approach is NOT applicable for test data deletion/client refresh.
See Also
- To delete or not delete, that is the question' - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition - Blog Series
- Deletion of Master and Transactional Data (ILM) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition - Link Collection
- 2702011 - Deleting Employee & Contingent Worker data in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Keywords
S4_PC, S4_1C, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, BP, Customer, Supplier, Vendor, delete, archive, Block, LO-MD-BP, AP-MD-BP, 5LE , KBA , LO-MD-BP , Business Partners , AP-MD-BP , Business Partner , How To
Product
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions