Business Partner: Maintain addresses per role

Question

Hi Guros
We have a customer in a bankin sector that needs to maintain multiple addresses per BP and role. What we see in the system is managing multiple addresses per BP.
The requirement is the following data model:
BP ->> roles ->> addresses.
Please advise how to meet this requirement.
Regards,
Benni Perzy

Answer 1

Hi Benni,
In the standard, this is not possible.
Address is a part of the Central Business partner  data sets- and is totally independent of role.
In fact, role and address are different datasets that have a 1:n cardinality with the BP.
You would need to make a modification to realise this.
Option 1 :
Use the Adderss usage concept.
Create a new address type in TB009, e.g. : correspondence address. Now, to ensure that this address type is only linked to this role, hide this address type for all other roles (using code modification).
So only your special role can maintain and see correspondence addresses.
Option 2 :
Create a new relationship category. Suppose you want the BP to have multiple role dependent addresses, manintan these addresses for a master BP, and derive these addresses for other BP using the Assign Address function.
E.g : Suppose I want to see 10 addresses only in role employe. I maintain an Employee relationship with an organization, maintain 10 addresses for the org, and then derive the addresses for the BP using the orgnization addresses through the Employee relationship. You can make the role as a prerequisite for the relationship so the link is like this.
BP1> Role>Relationship->BP2-->Addresses
You would ultimately need to do some different to realize this requirement since this is not supported in the standard !
I hope this helps you.
Cheers,
Rishu.