Validating Customer Addresses in S/4 using Google Address Validation API

⇨ Master data is fundamental data used in transactions. In SAP, customer master data is vital, containing details like names, addresses, contact information, and payment terms.

⇨ To streamline and automate customer address validation, businesses can utilise the Google Address Validation API. This web service offers validation and standardisation for addresses in over 240 countries and territories.

⇨ The article will demonstrate how to create an ABAP report that reads customer addresses from a table, employs the Google Address Validation API for each address, evaluates the response status, and records the outcome.

Customer addresses are an essential part of any business that deals with sales, delivery, invoicing, or marketing. Having accurate and consistent customer addresses can help improve customer satisfaction, reduce operational costs, and optimise business processes. However, maintaining customer address data can be challenging, especially when dealing with different formats, languages, and standards across countries and...