Archiving production orders is part of the general reorganization procedure for production orders.

To archive production orders only one archiving object is required. The archiving object is called PP_ORDER.

The reorganization of orders is divided into three steps in the R/3 System:

1. Activation of a deletion flag in the order

2. Activation of a deletion indicator in the order
3. Execute an archiving session

Orders that have already been archived can be displayed again in the R/3 System using a fourth step, called the retrieval function.

An order can only be archived after a deletion flag has been activated for it, either manually, or automatically (in other words, via a background report). After an initial residence time has passed, the orders that have been flagged for deletion are assigned with deletion indicators in a background run. After a second residence time has passed the orders are archived and simultaneously deleted from the database.