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3776974 - How to activate Multiple Address Handling - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Symptom

There is an request to activate Multiple Address Handling.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Cause

The SAP Business Partner data model allows you to maintain multiple addresses per business partner by default. To be able to maintain address-dependent data and enable SD documents to consume multiple addresses and address-dependent data.

Resolution

The steps to activate the multiple addresses are documented in  Multiple Address Handling in Customer Master Data | SAP Help Portal as below:

  1. Changing the switch state to ON in the Activate Multiple Address Handling for Customer Master Data in SAP BP configuration activity enables you to maintain address-dependent data in customer master data. 
  2. Changing the switch state to ON in the Activate Multiple Address Handling in SD Documents Using SAP BP configuration activity enables SD documents in sales and shipping to consume multiple addresses and address-dependent data.

Note: Once multiple address handling in customer master data is activated, it cannot be deactivated. However, activation should not have any disruptive effects, and all business processes remain as they are. No existing master data records are changed automatically. 

See Also

SAP Help Portal: Multiple Address Handling in Documents Using Business Partner

Keywords

multiple address handling, business partner, bp, irreversible configuration, configuration activities, public cloud, address variants, s/4hana cloud, business partners , KBA , LO-MD-BP-2CL , Business Partners for Public Cloud , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions