Symptom
Error "Relationship type is not possible for business partner ABC. This business partner is not maintained in the required roles for this relationship type." when replicate business partner relationship via BusinessPartnerRelationshipReplicationIn.
Environment
Cloud for Customer
Reproducing the Issue
1. Replicate business partner relationship from external system to C4C;
2. See error message when check under web service message monitoring via BusinessPartnerRelationshipReplicationIn: "Relationship type is not possible for business partner ABC. This business partner is not maintained in the required roles for this relationship type.".
Cause
There are multiple possibilities for this error message, one of the case is that the business partner you are trying to assign relationship was previous replicated to C4C with no role assigned during initial load.
Resolution
If the business partner with no role assigned in initial load, please assign correct role to the business partner via delta load from external system.
See Also
Keywords
relationship type, BusinessPartnerRelationshipReplicationIn , KBA , LOD-CRM-INT-ERP , Integration of C4C with ERP , Problem
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