Create Material in CRM and also in ECC

[former_member513165]

Hello,

We have a non-SAP system (that is not being retired) where pre-production material numbers are generated for opportunity work.

(They are not initially ECC)

We are migrating our current opportunity system into CRM, and approach is the non-SAP system will start to send the pre-production materials into CRM (as products).  To support opportunity creation.

However, when the materials do go into production, we then will set up the material numbers in ECC to support quotes/orders.

The material numer will be the same as when it was just pre-production status.

However, we are concerned with middleware replication...

What happens if we directly create a product in CRM, and then xx months later create the same product in ECC.

what happens when that material number tries to replicate to CRM and the number already exists?

Thanks

Chris

[former_member186543]

Hi Chris,

If you create the materials directly in CRM and then the materials with the same id in ECC, the products won't be in sync in the two systems and the transfers will start giving errors stating that the Product ID already exists and nothing will happen. Neither a new product will be created in CRM from ECC nor will it update the already existing once in CRM.

The reason being that the product created in CRM will be of the logical system identifier : CRM but when they will flow from ECC, they will be of the logical system identifier : ECC, hence the two won't link up.

/Hasan