Material deletion

[Former Member]

Hi,

Could anyone tell me what are the effects of flagging a material for deletion. I created a material and flagged it for deletion. I see that even after that, I am able to create sales order, billing document and post it to accounting. Is there ayway I can delete a material completely so that I wont be able to use the material in any transactions.

Thanks,

Aparna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Though the material is marked for deletion it will allow to do further transaction except creation of new documents by using MM06.

To puit a control o this goto t.code OMCQ and set the message type M7-127 as E

Ie.,version -06, Application area - M7 , NO. - 127 -

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cat E.

Regards,

Nagaraj S

Edited by: Nagaraj S on Aug 3, 2009 6:42 AM

[Former Member]

Hi,

If u have maintain the deletion flag then it is not possible to create any doc. So kindly check at what level and for which plant you gave put the delition flag in MM06 and revert back

[pardeep_malik]

Dear Aparna,

While in MM06, Select the material for deletion at lower level also.

also in system messages in environment in SPRO configure this as

00	ME	051	Material & flagged for deletion	E

then system will give u error msg.

Regards,

Pardeep Malik

[Former Member]

Hi,

Once again check , have you deleted the material.

if u delete the material , system does not allow to do further transactions.

MM06 is the T.Code for deletion of material.

Regards,

Andra

[former_member529134]

Hello Aparna,

For deleting a material master completely from your system, you have to master data archiving in T.code SARA after marking the code for deletion in MM06.

Flag for deletion, the material master records to be archived in MM06.

Go to T.Code SARA

Give the object MM_MATNR

Click u2018Customizingu2019

Go to Archiving Object-Specific Customizing - Technical Settings.

Maintain the variant for Test Mode and Production mode, and save the entries.

Come Back to SARA basic screen.

Select u2018Writeu2019

Maintain a variant, start date and spool parameters and execute.

Check the below link

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/8d/3e59bc462a11d189000000e8323d3a/frameset.htm

Also If the materials were in use. you had orders and stock, then you have to archive all those depending data first. Material master archiving is the very last step in an archiving cycle.

Regards