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 Assigning Address Usage

Prerequisites

You have created several addresses in the address overview and defined the required address types in Customizing.

Procedure

  1. Choose the Address Overview tab page in the Business Partner dialog .

    The Address Usages maintenance screen appears.

  2. Select an address type (for example, delivery address) and choose Create .

  3. Select the corresponding address in the dialog box, create a validity period and choose Continue .

    You have assigned an address to an address usage. The selected address is identified as standard usage.

    If you have assigned several addresses to an address type, the indicator Standard appears next to the first address entered. If you wish to define a different address as the standard usage for the address type, select the required address and choose Standard .

  4. Create a standard address for a business partner via the address usage standard address.

    You can assign several standard addresses with sequential validity periods to a business partner.

    Caution Caution

    If an address exists for a business partner, a standard address must always be assigned. If you create a new address within a period in which the standard address you created first is not valid, the system automatically defines this address as the standard address for this period.

    End of the caution.

  5. Save your data.

    Note Note

    You can use the pushbutton Validity to change the validity period of an address usage .

    End of the note.

Result

You have assigned one or more addresses to an address usage.

Example

In addition to the standard address, you require addresses for certain activities. For example, for a business partner, you want to send letters to a different address to the one used for deliveries.

You must have defined the address types correspondence address and d elivery address in Customizing.

You assign the address to which letters should be sent to the address type c orrespondence address, and the address to which deliveries should be sent to the address type delivery address.