The SAP MM supplier does not have an English name, but the ME21N has an English name?

SAP MM supplier has no English name, but ME21N brings English name?

Recently, I received a question reported by a customer service user saying how the name of supplier 101071 is an English name when ME21N. In fact, there is no such English name in the supplier master data.

Transaction code BP to display the vendor master data

Look at its international version,

No English names are maintained. Where does this English name come from?

Strangely, my colleagues and I searched the vendor master data repeatedly, but we couldn't find where the English name was maintained. Later, I had no choice but to find ABAP consultant to debug ME21N. I saw that the program grabbed the data there. As a result, I found that the program grabbed the address data of the supplier (ADRC table), and there was data related to international version I, as shown in the following figure:

It seems that when the front-end maintains the supplier master data, the background database updates are caused by inconsistency. The solution is to re-maintain the name of international version I, save it, and create a purchase order, so that the unused English name will no longer appear.

May 29, 2019 was written in Suzhou City.