Deleting Purchase orders in APO

[Former Member]

Hi,

We keep getting some old purchase orders into APO from R/3. We could not close the POs in R/3 instead decided that we should delete these orders from APO regularly.

Is there a report so that I can search for purchase orders in a particular date range and then delete them automatically.

I know I can search for POs using the transaction /n/sapapo/rrp1 and delete them using GUID in program /SAPAPO/OM_DELETE_INCON_ORDERS. But this is manual procedure. I would like to do this automatically. I looked at /SAPAPO/DELETE_PP_ORDER and /SAPAPO/rlcdelete but they are not able to delete POs.

Any suggestions please?

[Former Member]

mass deletion in R/3

[Former Member]

Hi Venkat,

Mass deletion in R3 using MASS and BUS2012, selection the delete field and select the purchase orders..this way you delete the pur orders in R3. Do the CCR in APO will solve your problem..

[Former Member]

Hi,

These old purchase orders can be blocked from coming to APO at the CIF level through the user exit CIFPUR_001. I think you can use some suitable filter criteria to block these orders from coming to APO.

Regards,

Sireesh

[Former Member]

Hi Visu Venkat,

Please try out the below options

1) After deletion using rlcdel or using any other report, try running ccr for

purchase orders and subsequently clear the queues and check

2) As purchase order number ranges are assigned in R/3 and later getting

updated into APO, it is recommended to delete in R/3 itself through some

mass deletion program rather than in APO

3) Try report /SCMB/ODM_DATA_CHECK

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Hi Senthil,

Thanks for taking time to reply.

1) After deletion using rlcdel or using any other report, try running ccr for

purchase orders and subsequently clear the queues and check

RLCDELETE can not delete purchase orders. It is not able to find any Stock transfer orders ( between plant and DC category type BF) as well. So I don't think this helps.

2) As purchase order number ranges are assigned in R/3 and later getting

updated into APO, it is recommended to delete in R/3 itself through some

mass deletion program rather than in APO

We can not do the deletion in R/3. That is the reason why I am mulling options in APO. Any other suggestions please?

3) Try report /SCMB/ODM_DATA_CHECK

Can you give me details on what this program does? Never used it.