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Nov 06, 2012 at 06:57 AM

Deletion of Obsolete material: best practice

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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