Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Hi there,

I am writing some code which uses the BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

to create a new customer.

However, when running the code I get the following error:

Internal error: Refe. customer does not exist in master record

Which suggests that the customer no I am passing to the BAPI does not exist.

But the customer number will not exist because I am trying to create it !

I'm obviously missing a step somewhere?

Any ideas anyone

Thanks

Andy