Issue

Suppliers are flagged as blocked in SAP; however, the blocked flag is not set for those suppliers when imported into AP Essentials.

Solution

When using the "/cockpit/md_export" program in Process Director to export Supplier master data, the "blocked" flag is not included in the export.   Only the following fields are exported using the /cockpit/md_export program:

• SupplierNumber
• Name1
• VATRegistrationNumber
• Street
• PostalCode
• City
• CountryName
• TelephoneNumber
• FaxNumber

Important note:  Even if the Blocked flag is added to the Supplier XML file, either manually or via a variant of the /cockpit/md_export program, it will not be imported into AP Essentials.  Only the fields listed above will be imported into AP Essentials via this method.


Some possible solutions are:

• When using "/cockpit/md_export", filter out the blocked suppliers prior to import into AP Essentials.
• Contact Professional Services about alternate methods of exporting supplier master data from SAP.  Professional Services has developed several alternate solutions for exporting supplier master data from SAP into AP Essentials.

References

Supplier master data for Process Director

How to contact Professional Services

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