Purpose
You can use this report to assign contact person attributes for thebusiness partner to contact person attributes for customer masterrecords and vice versa, assuming certain prerequisites have been met.These assignments support the bidirectional synchronization of thecontact person within customer integration.
You can synchronize the following attributes using this report:

• Department numbers for contact person


• Functions of contact person


• Authority of contact person


• VIP indicator for contact person


• Marital statuses

You can run the report once for each attribute pair when you set up thesystem.
The report transfers the Customizing entries for a source object (eitherthe corresponding contact person attributes for the business partner orthe corresponding contact person attributes for the customer masterrecord) to the Customizing for a suitable target object (either thecorresponding contact person attributes for the customer master recordor the contact person attributes for the business partner) and makesassignments between both objects.
Note that the system does not trigger errors during subsequent businesspartner or customer processing as a result of missing or incorrectCustomizing assignments but that it does not update attributes in thetarget object.
You can call up the report directly or from the synchronization cockpit.

Integration
You can assign the relevant Customizing settings manually in thefollowing IMG activities:


• Assign Department Numbers for Contact Person


• Assign Functions of Contact Person


• Assign Authority of Contact Person


• Assign VIP Indicator for Contact Person


• Assign Marital Statuses

Note that in addition to the assignment you also have to ensure that youmake the corresponding entry in the Customizing for the target object.You can do this by using either the following IMG activities for thecustomer master records or the corresponding IMG activities for thebusiness partner:
Customer master record,,Business partner:
Define Standard Departments,,
Define Departments
Define Contact Person Functions,,
Define Functions
Define Authority,,
Define Authority
Define VIP Indicator,,
Define VIP Entries
Create Marital Status,,Maintain Marital Status

Prerequisites
You have defined either the contact person attribute for the customermaster record or the contact person attribute for the business partnerin Customizing. This object is your source object. When you carry out ananalysis you can examine the attribute pairs individually and determinewhich attribute (either business partner or customer) is to be yoursource object.
Before you run the report, ensure that no entries are available in thetarget object or in the assignment Customizing. If the contact personattribute in question is already set in both objects (business partnerand customer) or in the assignment Customizing, assign this attributemanually in the relevant IMG activity.

Selection
You can select how each attribute pair is transferred and how theentries are assigned.


• If you select the Customer/Vendor-> Partner indicator for the
attribute pair then you can transfer the entries for this contact personattribute from the customer master record into the Customizing for thebusiness partner and assign the attributes for both sets of master data.

• If you select the Partner-> Customer/Vendor indicator for the
attribute pair then you can transfer the entries for this contact personattribute from the business partner into the Customizing for thecustomer master record and assign the attributes for both sets of masterdata.

Note
You can set the indicator for the attribute pair only if entries havebeen made exclusively for the source object.

Activity
Before you run the report for each object pair individually checkwhether the prerequisites have been met or whether you have to makeCustomizing settings manually.
Run the report for the assignment direction indicated for the attributepair and check the results.

Example
You want to synchronize the contact person attributes for the businesspartner and the customer in customer integration. When you set upCustomer/Vendor Integration you therefore want to make the requiredCustomizing settings for assigning contact person attributes. The reportcan help you to make the required assignments by automating some of theprocesses.
You examine each attribute pair individually.


• You have already defined the standard departments for the customer
master data in Customizing for Sales and Distribution. You have ensuredthat no departments have been defined for the business partner and thatthere are no assignments between the departments for the customer andthose for the business partner. If these prerequisites have been met youcan automatically transfer the assignment Customizing for departments byrunning the report.

• You have already defined the VIP indicator for the business partner in
business partner Customizing. You have ensured that no VIP indicator hasbeen defined for the customer and that there are no assignments betweenthe VIP indicator for the customer and those for the business partner.If these prerequisites have been met you can automatically transfer theassignment Customizing for the VIP indicator by running the report.
Set the Customer/Vendor-> Partner indicator in the DepartmentNumbers section and the Partner-> Customer/Vendor indicator inthe VIP Indicator section.
You can run the report once for each attribute pair. The report createsdefinitions of department numbers for the business partner and the VIPindicator for the customer, and makes assignments between the departmentnumbers and the VIP indicators.