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"

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.
Eg:

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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