IBAN (International Bank Account Number):
The IBAN is an internationally valid ID number of the bank account in form of a combination of ISO code, bank code and bank account number. The structure is defined in accordance with ECBS standard (European Committee for Banking Standards). The length is a maximum of 34 alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-Z), special characters are not allowed. You can find additional information on the Internet page: http://www.ecbs.org
Use in the R/3 System
In the R/3 System the IBAN will be used in domestic and foreign payment transactions along with the country-specific bank account number. You can create the IBAN directly from the vendor and customer master data (Screen "Bank details"). In the area of the bank details data you can find pushbuttons, which you can use to create or change an IBAN. The icon on the pushbutton tells you whether an IBAN exists for certain bank details: If an IBAN exists, you can see a green arrow, otherwise the arrow is white.
A precondition for the use of the IBAN is that you have activated the IBAN functions for the client in table TIBAN_ACTIVE (Transaction SM30).
You have two options of maintaining the bank details and the corresponding IBAN:
- You receive the IBAN for certain bank details
Press the pushbutton 'IBAN' of the created bank details. While generating an IBAN the system can generate a proposal for certain bank countries (at the moment AT, DE, FR, BE, CH), in all other cases you must enter the IBAN and confirm your entry.
Note: You can extend the generation of an IBAN (proposal) to other bank countries. The generation is country-specific and is based on BTE functions (business transaction events, see Transaction FIBF). Use event '00003030'.
- You only receive the IBAN, but not any bank details data
Press the pushbutton IBAN. In the dialog box you can enter an IBAN and let the system generate the corresponding bank details. At present the generation is possible for the following bank countries: AT, DE, BE and FR. As the generation is based on BTE functions, you can extend the generation on additional countries. Use event '00003040'.
Remark:
If you delete some bank details in the customer or vendor master data, for which an IBAN is stored, then the IBAN is retained because it can be used simultaneously be several business partners (see example below).
General maintenance of the IBAN
If you want to store an IBAN for a different business partner, in whose master data the entry of the IBAN is not yet supported (for example personnel master), you can maintain the IBAN via view V_TIBAN (Transaction SM30). Here you can also delete IBANs that are no longer used.
When you delete an IBAN, bear in mind that it is deleted for all users. Example:
Vendor: Ms Appleby
Customer: Mr Appleby
Mrs and Mr Appleby have the same bank details. Since there is only one IBAN for the bank details, vendor APPLEBY and customer APPLEBY refer to the same IBAN. When you delete this IBAN both business partners (vendor/customer) lose the information on this IBAN.
Change documents
You can call change documents directly from the IBAN dialog box or display them using program RFIBANCD.
Note that the following Support Packages are a precondition for using the IBAN:
Release Software component Support Package 40B SAP_APPL SAPKH40B6445B SAP_APPL SAPKH45B42
46B SAP_ABA SAPKA46B30
SAP_APPL SAPKH46B30
46C SAP_ABA SAPKA46C21
SAP_APPL SAPKH46C21
46D SAP_ABA SAPKA46D10
50A SAP_ABA SAPKA50A01
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