PO Box in Norway

[Former Member]

We are performing a rollout to the 4 Scandinavian contries and have a bit of a problem for Norway.- 0n the customer Master the address field for the PO Box u2013 is too short for Norway who need to enter a number and an extension for Oslo. Does anybody have any information on this I cannot find any notes or anything on this?

[Former Member]

Checked few Norweigian customer master data and saw its 4 letter charactertics for Oslo which is normal not sure whether you mean field ADDR1_DATA-PO_BOX? If yes, how many characters do you have or want to enter?

as you knew the number of characters for postal code is different in each Scandinavian country for instance Finland has 5, Sweden has sometimes 6 (one character space in postal code xxx xx). but why did you have problem with Norway but not others? what difference did you find for others?

make sure you have "001" in address layout key in country global parameters ie. OY01

Edited by: sap.sats on Aug 5, 2010 4:01 PM

[Former Member]

Hi thanks for you comments, but it is not at printing but at creation and amendment of customers address VD01/VD02 for Norwegian customers we cannot enter into field PO_BOX the correct information of PO-Box plus extension.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The Standard Field Length for PO Box "PO_BOX" is only 10 CHAR, So you cannot enter more than that, with the help of ABAP create a custom field under Address Tab "PO Box address tab" of Customer Master.

[Former Member]

Hi Gnana,

we were hoping to avoid doing any more ABAP adjustments to this and we assumed that SAP would have catered for Norway having a special need in this field.

If anybody knows this (possibly norwegian consultants may have come across this need before)

[jpfriends079]

As per SAP help:

Overview of the country-specific formats currently implemented

An example of a domestic and a foreign address is given for each address format.

"Short form" is the one-line short form of the address (with street). The short form without the street is formed by omitting the middle part.

"DME" is the one-line form for the data medium (payment transactions without documents per data medium exchange (DME)). The second line for the data medium is the same as the street line (Street/house number or PO Box) and is not displayed separately.

001: European standard address

( valid e.g. for Belgium, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, The Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey and Vatican City).

Note: The country name is only printed instead of the license plate code if the "Print country name in foreign addresses" flag is set for the sender country in the country table.

For Slovenia, the code "SI" is used instead of the license plate code "SLO", for San Marino and the Vatican the code "I" (for Italy) instead of "RSM" and "SCV" respectively. Liechtenstein and Switzerland have a common post office with a uniform postal code system (they treat each other as domestic).

Examples:

Belgium as the sender country:

SAP Belgium SA

Bld., de la Woluwe 2

1150 Brussels

Short form: SAP Belgium SA / 1150 Brussels

DME: 1150 Brussels

Italy as the sender country ("Print country name in foreign addresses" flag is not set):

SAP Belgium SA

Bld., de la Woluwe 2

B-1150 BRUSSELS

Short form: SAP Belgium SA / Bld., de la Woluwe 2 / B-1150 Brussels

DME B-1150 Brussels Belgium

USA as the sender country ("Print country name in foreign addresses" flag is set):

SAP Belgium SA

Bld., de la Woluwe 2

1150 BRUSSELS

BELGIUM

Short form: SAP Belgium SA / Bld., de la Woluwe 2 / 1150 Brussels

DME: 1150 Brussels Belgium

Hope this can assist in understanding.

Thanks & Regards

JP

[Former Member]

Hi Prakash

we have already set this and it still does not cover this special need for Oslo regarding PO-Box. We are writing a modification to resolve this. thanks for youor help

[jpfriends079]

In Tcode OY01- Country Global Parameter for NORWAY(NO), check Address layout key.

As per SAP, it is Formatting routine key for printing addresses

For printing addresses, there are country-specific routines which in each case copy the correct postal formatting of the address. The three-character "Address Layout Key" for the recipient country controls which of the routines available for formatting addresses in the relevant country is used. These routines are programmed into the ADDRESS_INTO_PRINTFORM function module.

They are based on different national and international guidelines and norms, including:

ISO 11180, contracts of the World Postal Union (Seoul 1994), international address samples from the World Postal Union

as well as the available rules of the individual countries.

Customers can program their own formatting routines using a customer exit. The SZAD0001 SAP enhancement has been defined in the package SZAD for this (-> transaction CMOD).

Hope this can assist you.

Thanks & Regards'

JP