Hi Harsh
the discussion of mergin duplicate business partners we hear from time to time. Due to the impact and follow up discussions e.g.
- What happens with open invoices (Invoices cannot be reposted, they need to be reversed and recreated)
- What happens with cleared items? Do you want to merge them as well? Otherwise you do not see them in the statistics?
- Also the POs and SOs and the impact on payment behaviour, delivery etc.
- ...
Do to this open questions and the fact that we do not have an "out of the box" answer, we usually suggest to the customers to change the name of the obsolete BP to "obsolete". Then ensure that the new transactions go to the correct Business Partner (e.g. remove bank data from the obsolete partner will avoid automatic processing).
Hope that clarifies your question.
Best regards and thanks
Marlene