SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3554285 - GST INDIA: Field required to maintain Legal Entity Identifier LEI in vendor master as per RBI requirement.

Symptom

Legal Entity Identifier(LEI) is a 20-digit number used to uniquely identify parties to financial transactions worldwide. The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) on December 5 introduced the LEI for large value transactions over Rs 50 lakhs in Centralized Payment Systems, which will be effective from April 1, 2021.

This KBA tells about the field required to maintain LEI in vendor master as per RBI requirement.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Resolution

As the service tax registration number has been phased out by GST, we recommend “Ser.Reg.No” field to be used to store LEI number. Also, we do not recommend to use any other standard fields to store this LEI number.

"Ser.Reg.No" is available in below path:

  1. App: "Maintain Business Partner" 
  2. Click on "Supplier:Country Specific Ext." tab 
  3. Maintain LEI number in "Ser.Reg.No" field

Keywords

Ser.Reg.No, LEI, Legal Entity Identifier, RBI, Vendor Master, J_1IMOVEND-J_1ISERN, J_1ISERN, Business partner, BP , KBA , FI-LOC-MM-IN , India (aka XX-CSC-IN-MM) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions