Close Open STO with inactive plant

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I have an issue in closing one STO. This STO was created in 2000, and no further action was taken since 2001. All the items in this STO (total of 20 items) are flagged for deletion. And the supplying plant in this case is inactive (not to be used) since many years now.

Out of those 20 items, 15 are completely delivered with proper GR entry. 4 are partially delivered and 1 item is yet to be proceeded with delivery (no PO history).

Whenever I tried to change this STO (to mark delivery completion indicator), it gives me an error of "Material is flagged for deletion, no shipping data found for material". And this is for all the line item materials.

Even I'm unable to lock those line items.

Please suggest some way to close this STO.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Anurag.

[JL23]

A STO cannot be closed by setting a delivery completion indicator.

In a STO process the delivery is only completed if PO quantity and delivery quantity are equal and the shipped quantity is fully received.

You can avoid the error messages by removing the deletion flags and doing the customizing for shipping point determination (which was probably deleted to early)

[Former Member]

Thanks Jurgen.

But now, how can I proceed with this, any suggestions?

Will deleting each line item in the STO will do?

Or any other remedy?

Thanks,

Anurag.

Edited by: Anurag Patki on Feb 28, 2011 9:29 PM

[JL23]

if you have stock in transit, then a deletion will not help to close the business case. For items that do not have stock in transit you can certainly try to set the deletion indicator. But you may receive even then error messages if the customizing was changed

[Former Member]

Thanks Jurgen.

There is no stock in transit for any of the line item.

Perhaps, it is not allowing to delete those line items who have delivered qty by shipping is same as PO qty (via outbound del), but not yet shipped (partial GI) and also not received (partial GR).

How to conclude on this situation?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Anurag.

[JL23]

you would need to delete the delivery in your inactive plant.