How to Delete a Business Partner

Applies to:
SAP CRM 7.0/2007/5.0/4.0

Summary
In SAP CRM a User can Create/Edit business Partner by transaction BP but not many knows how to delete a BP once
created.

Procedure:
In CRM One can create/Edit Business Partner by the Transaction BP. However at times you want to delete a Business
Partner created by mistake or for any other reason which is not meaningful. In such a case transaction BP will not help
you.
There is a Transaction BUPA_DEL, which can be used in order to delete a particular or range of business Partner(s).
Only Record with Delete Flag - If user checks the first checkbox then it will delete only those BP's whose Archiving
flag is set.
Only System status "Deleted" - If User checks second checkbox, then it will delete only those BP's whose status has
been set to be "deleted" by the user.
Test Run, Check only - If User checks third checkbox, then it will run the transaction without deleting any BP.

Note: For those BP's who are already in use will not be deleted by this transaction.

 Only Record with Delete Flag - If user checks the First Checkbox then it will delete only those BP's whose
Archiving flag is set.
 Only System status "Deleted" - If User checks Second Checkbox, then it will delete only those BP's whose
status has been set to be "deleted" by the user.
 Test Run, Check only - If User checks Third Checkbox, then it will run the transaction without deleting any
BP.

Note: For those BP's who are already in use will not be deleted by this transaction.