Impacts of Material Master Deletion Flag

[Former Member]

Hi All,

What are the impacts on material documents, purchasing documents, purchase info records and source list (existing for the material) if a particular material has been flagged for deletion. What are the best practices to flag a material for deletion in this case? Your answers are appreciated!!

Thanks!

Fareed

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

U can mark any material at any time for deletion flag. but u can not delete that material completely from the system untill u have stock or any open purchasing document.

[Former Member]

Hai Fareed,

First What is the need of flag the material.

Suppose You Don't Want that material from the system,

Follow the Steps.

1. Please make it Zero Stock the Particular Material.

2. What Are Open P.O's are their for particular Material, maintian Delivery

Completed Activite.

3. Goto MM06 ( Flag Material ) Give the all Information Related to Material.

4. Then use Archive Process That is the Complete Delete Process in the system.

I Think it is Enough for you. If You Want Any Clarification Please Reply.

Regards,

Rajan.

[ericsj]

There isn't any impact to the existing doc when you flag a material for deletion, just that system will issue a warning message to inform the material is marked for deletion. The user can ignore the message and proceed with the transactions.

The normal practise is your company should define a rules about under what scenario the material need to be mark for deletion and what actions can the user department do or don't do when they saw such a message.

For example, the material need to mark for deletion due to error in define material master, or obsolete or change spec. Then for each of those scenario, what other department (purchasing, inventory GR/GI) should aware of for each of those cases.