How to use different Business Partner addresses in SD and MM transactions?

[cora_juste]

Dear SAP-cracks,

we are going to switch to business partner to pepare the system for S/4 HANA brown field conversion. We just loved the multiple adresses function in business partner and planned to consolidate customers into one business partner/customer since it was once only created because of different delivery and billing adresses (e.g.). Actually it is one legal entiy with the same tax id.

Now. I encounter the major problem, that these multiple adresses do not make any sense since I cant find out how to use these in my transaction like send order etc.

I found the very sad SAP Note 2528520 wich refers to Sales. Is this the most actual information? Can I use multiple adresses for MM transactions? How can I achive this?

This is what I set in our sandbox system so far. But I just cant find out, what to do now? How do i link my SAP tranaction like "create order" to the BP transaction "BBP000 - Send Order"?

I would really appreciate your help. Maybe I'm just stupid here and I just need one small hint. I really hope to solve this probleme because otherwise I just dont understand the whole adress determination tree for business partner. It wouldn't make any sense.

Thanx in advance,

regards,

Cora

[former_member710286]

Hi Cora -

I suggest you to ref following threads of discussion about Multiple addresses for BP.

Multiple Address for different role

https://answers.sap.com/questions/5449451/multiple-address-for-different-role.html

Business Partner Addresses

https://answers.sap.com/questions/279802/business-partner-addresses.html

Thanks

Shishir

[robin_mcrae2]

Hi,

I`ll keep my eye on this thread... many of the same concerns where lessons learned are invaluable.

Regards,

Robin

[cora_juste]

Hi Sven,

at the end I learned, that using multiple adresses for one business partner is a CRM relic. For all logistic transactions such as creating an order the system still works with the "old" vendor objects/tables. So your stuck with the partner role logic ending up with multiple vendors (= multiple BPs).

As I mentioned within the other issue SAP promised to revise the whole business partner adress handling by the end of 2021. I cant wait to experience a solution to manage different locations of one legal entity withing one business partner. Obviously we have to be patient. 🙂

Don't hesitate and email me if you are interested in discussing some questions with me. Regards, Cora

[0024321960]

Did you find any answer on your Question in S4 HANA , for maintaining multiple address using Address overview Tab with linkage to it Purchase Order Selection.

i raised almost similar query now : How to Maintain Multiple address of vendor with usage in PO | SAP Community

Please reply if you know any standard solution with one BP.

[sven_hertig1]

Hi Cora,

how are you? I have the same issue at my client. Did you solve your issue with the bp multiple address functionality or did you use the old partner schemata for create different addresses with different bps.

Thanks and

Best regards,

Sven

[VeselinaPeykova]

If memory serves, the concept of multiple addresses in BP had something to do with CRM (I do not remember where exactly I read this, sorry).

Considering that you really wish to keep the same customer/vendor number as the BP (this means having a 1:1 relationship between customer and business partner) - even after the conversion you will not be using the feature which I described. In this case I do not think that it will be very useful to maintain different addresses in the business partner (unless you intend to resort to some custom developments to update addresses in SD/MM documents). I guess, if you print something from FI documents, you can take any address from the master data, but such address use will be probably rare.

[cora_juste]

Dear Veselina, thank you for your reply. It is not sure when to convert to S/4 so 2706243 is not applicable yet. Also we were going to keep customer/BP or vendor/bp numbers identical.

Is there a way to use different addresses for MM?

What is the customing "Assign Transaction to Adress Type" for? Does is make any sense then? Thanx very much in advance...

[VeselinaPeykova]

I am not sure if you also read note 2706243 - Multiple Assignments of Customers/Suppliers to Business Partners in SAP S/4HANA 1809.

This allows you to use multiple addresses in SD without defining additional business partners, you create additional customers linked to the corresponding business partner and choose one of the defined addresses from the BP as address for this specific additional customer. You can then add the additional customer as a partner function in role FLCU01.

Unfortunately, there are some limitations, and I don't think that you can take advantage of this feature for your existing master records. As to MM - the process is very similar, you have a mirror Fiori app for maintenance of additional suppliers.

From user perspective there is no change to how SD or MM documents are created or processed, the only thing that you skip is maintenance of additional business partners and you simplify the address selection and maintenance.

I assumed that since you are currently working on a conversion project that the target version is at least 1809. If this is not the case - then indeed note 2528520 is a bit disappointing.