Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Activate International address version in SAP .......................................................................................... 2 How to create different versions of same address for a customer .......................................................... 3 How to add a new international address version ..................................................................................... 6 Technical Data ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Introduction "International address version" allows you to maintain multiple versions of the same address for a given customer/vendor in SAP. This functionality is very commonly used for customers who need to have multiple versions of the same address in different languages. For example, let's say a business which uses SAP in USA has a customer in Japan. The address printed in all sales/shipping documents used within USA for that customer should be printed in the language English, where as in all documents sent to the customer, the address should be printed in Japanese. Therefore it is necessary to maintain same address in two versions within SAP. You can code the print program to pick the correct address version (language) during document printing.
Activate International address version in SAP IMG Path:
In standard SAP, below international address versions are available
If you want to activate the Japanese version (Kanji), mark the tick box under field "Active".
Save your settings
How to create different versions of same address for a customer Once you activated the "International Address Version" functionality in SAP, you can maintain different versions of the same address in the customer master Transaction: XD02
Go in to the customer master General data
Click on the button
under the tab "Address"
Eg:
System will give you a pop up with all active "International Address Versions" in you SAP client. Select the version you want to maintain and press Enter key
Now you should be able to see the same address entry window for the version "Kanji". Maintain the customer address in the language you want and save the customer master.
Same manner it is possible to add another version of the language as well.
Now if you click on the button again, you can see which versions are maintained based on the tick mark under column "Maintained"
How to add a new international address version As I mentioned earlier, there are limited number of address versions provided in SAP standard. But SAP has provided the provision of adding your own address version as well. In order to add your own address version, do below;
Call transaction SM30 Enter view name as "V_SAPTSADV"
Press the button
Add the new address version within the customer name space (keys 0 - 9) using button . Mark it active as well
Now if you check your customer master button, you should be able to see the new address version. You can maintain another version of same address now in this language as well!
Technical Data Now let's see how we can extract address data based on the international address version.
The address number is stored in the table "KNA1" (General Data in Customer Master) under the field "ADRNR"
You need to pass this address number (ADRNR) to the table "ADRC" to extract international address versions
International address version is stored under the field "NATION" Therefore below logic should be used in print programs to print the customer address;
For all documents printed/used within USA, the customer address should extracted from the table "ADRC", where "NATION" field is Blank
For all documents sent to Japan, the customer address should extracted from the table "ADRC", where "NATION" equals "K"
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