Duplicate Check for
Accounts and Contacts
You can implement a check that identifies potentially
duplicate accounts or contacts during creation or editing and notifies the
user. The user can decide whether the new account or contact is required or is
in fact a duplicate of an existing account or contact. Duplicate accounts can
be discarded or merged with another account. For more information about merging
duplicates, see Data Cleansing.
Prerequisites
The duplicate check uses the interface of the Business
Address Services. You activate the duplicate check in Customizing for SAP NetWeaver, under Application Server Basis Services Address Management Duplicate Check Activate Duplicate Check and Determine Limit
for BAPIs .
Make sure that the
duplicate check has been activated for both index pools (tables BUT000 and
BUT052).
Features
The duplicate check can be implemented for accounts only,
contacts only, or for both.
The duplicate check is executed in the SAP CRM system in
create and edit mode.
The duplicate check uses the interface of the SAP NetWeaver
Business Address Service.
