Hi
One of our client is asking for industry best practices to remove the material from SAP ECC and APO, after a material goes obsolete.
1. Does anyone have some best practice guidelines for obsolete materials in ECC / APO?
2. If plant specific material status in ECC goes to the following status,
ZS - Inactive
OB - Obsolete Item
what options do we have? what is difference between these two?
3. What options do we have to:
- Prevent the obsolete items from displaying in planning book / planning using SNP
- Delete the obsolete product from APO Product master through automatic CIF or another method
- Create report out of ECC of the Obsolete items, planner then goes through a check list to delete the material from ECC / APO?
In cases where a company has ~ 1 Million SKU's, deleting old CVC's and deleting the product from the product master (and especially preventing it from planning purchase requisitions / planned orders) becomes very important.
Appreciate any options that you may have experienced in this area.
Thanks
VP