changing the language of PO delivery address

[Former Member]

hello all

issue is as follows:

the supplier in our PO is from Italy and the purchasing client (creating the PO) is from China.

when printing the delivery address in the PO, the address country is in Italian and the purchaser wants it in English.

so when I check the tab "delivery address" and I do a preview, I see the logon language but by changing parameters "sending country" to Italy, I can indeed see that the address is in Italian instead of English (CINA instead of CHINA).

I was under the impression that table ADRC contains this information but I cannot find the country fully displayed, just the code. also I understand that it is being formatted by a function module but I guess that this info is stored somewhere!

how can I change this info?

[michael_kozlowski · Accepted solution]

Goto OY01. Menu Goto->Translation

[JL23]

First of all you need to check what the document language is, it can be seen in ME23N at the PO header data.

It should usually come from the vendor master communication language, but it is possible to change when creating the PO before any item was entered.

The long text for the country is not written manually in an address, you usually only enter the country code, and this country code is then converted to the long text of country based on the address rules assigned in country definition  (OY01)

[Former Member]

i tried to reproduce the scenario and changed the language on header level but the system did not accept it and still picked the supplier language for the text of the country.

I guess that it must be maybe programmed so in the form.

but transaction OY01 works.

In any case I will not change that as it would change for every supplier of that country.

thank you all

[former_member221091]

When you create a PO, at the very initial point, you find the the field is editable, it gets grayed out after few entries.

[former_member197616]

Hi,

Also try maintain the address in the English at OX10 in the Address screen by pressing the International versions .

Regards,