3788328 - country-based mandatory/optional vat number in business partner not supported via standard configuration; badi alternative and app limitation, s/4hana cloud public edition

• Business requirement to control the VAT number field (mandatory vs. optional) in Business Partner for both customers and suppliers by country.
• VAT should be mandatory for all countries except the United States; for the United States, it should be optional.
• Unable to achieve this without creating additional account groups.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

business partner, vat number, tax id, country-specific field, mandatory optional, bp type, configure field attributes, account group screen layout, mdbpcv_validate_bp, validation badi, maintain business partner app, customer supplier, cbc, field control, s4hana cloud , KBA , LO-MD-BP-2CL , Business Partners for Public Cloud , Problem