Addresses 

Use

You can create one or more addresses for each business partner. If you create multiple addresses, you can define when they should be used (for example, you can specify that you want to use a certain address as the delivery address).

Features

If you only require one address for each business partner, you can use the standard address fields in the Address processing screen. This address will be used for all activities.

If you require several addresses for a business partner, you enter the standard address in the Address processing screen and then select Address overview to enter other addresses. You have the following customizing and assignment options to help you manage several addresses:

  1. In addition to the standard address you require other addresses for certain activities. For example, with a business partner you may have to send letters to a different address from the delivery address.

    2. In Customizing you have to define the address types Correspondence address and Delivery address.

    You assign the address to which letters should be sent to the address type Correspondence address, and the address to which deliveries should be sent to the address type Delivery address.

    If several addresses are assigned to an address type, you can assign the attribute Standard use to the address to which correspondence should normally be sent. The field selection that appears only includes addresses of this address type.

    Example

    If a business partner has five addresses, of which three are correspondence addresses, only the three correspondence addresses appear in the selection of correspondence addresses.

    In Customizing you define whether several addresses may be assigned to an address type.

  2. If a BP role suggests that one address type will be used the most, you can use the Customizing feature to assign an address type as the standard address type to a BP role. For example, it may make sense to assign the address type Delivery address as the standard address type to the BP role Goods recipient.