SAP MDG Business Partner Misaligned

Hi There ,

We have a situation where out Business Partner number range is not aligned with Customer and Vendor numbers . We definitely have BP integration in place but just because the numbers are not aligned defeats the purpose of BP in the organisation in terms of looking up a customer or Vendor .

Is there a recommended SAP practice to realign BP with customer and vendor master numbers . This will help us doing quick search which is causing more time as we need to search via ECC . We are MDG deployment on top of ECC and on 6.1 version today.

Thanks,

Binoy