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3338794 - Main Contact name of Suppliers is Not Displayed Correctly

Symptom

While accessing to Main Contact name column for Suppliers, you find some of them are displayed as Last Name + First Name, but the others are First Name + Last Name.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supplier Base work center-> Suppliers view.
  2. You will see in Main Contact column, some of the name are displayed as Last Name + First Name, but the others are First Name + Last Name. 

Cause

You have maintained a name format for specific country, but the Country/Region is not maintained for the contacts.

Resolution

For contact person you can maintain either main personal address or you can go to additional name fields and enter the country under country/region for name formatting.

See Also

 2197664 - Employee Name Shows in Different Format in Expense Report

Keywords

Main Contact, Name Format, Supplier , KBA , SRD-MD-BP , Business Partner , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions