You may get the error message like “Inactive partner profile was found” after a system copy operation for your BW system, then you can activate it easily with following step.

Detail of the message will be like this ;

In this case, you need to goto transaction WE20, find the related “Partner” and change the “Partn. Status” from “I – Inactive” to “A – Active” and save it.

Now you can continue your process without the error message.