Logging Deactivated Material Master Data

Use

When you no longer need a material in SAP APO, for example, because this material is already flagged for deletion in SAP R/3 or is no longer to be planned in SAP APO, you can deactivate the integration model in which the material is contained. In this case, the corresponding product in SAP APO is no longer supplied with changes from SAP R/3. However, the product still exists in SAP APO and can also be used by planning.

By using logging of deactivated material masters, you can have the system log the materials that are no longer contained in an active integration model but which still exist in SAP APO.

In a second step, you can use program RCIFMTDE to execute a complete data transfer of the deactivated material masters to SAP APO. During this transfer, the procurement type for these products in SAP APO is automatically set to External Procurement Planning. These products are then no longer used by Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS). For more information, see SAP Note 364287.

You can then definitively delete these products that are no longer relevant to planning.

Activities

·        In the CIF menu, choose Integration Model  ® Activate. Select the integration model whose materials you no longer need in SAP APO. Set the Log Deactivated Material Masters indicator for this integration model. Deactivate the integration model containing the materials that you no longer need in SAP APO.

·        The system logs the deactivated material masters.

·        Use program RCIFMTDE to completely transfer the deactivated material masters to SAP APO.

·        The system automatically sets the procurement type for these products to P (External Procurement Planning).

·        PP/DS does not take into account products with this procurement type.

·        If you want to definitively delete these products in SAP APO, you can set the deletion flag for them and then delete them.

If you want to delete a large number of such products at once, you can also set the deletion flag for products with procurement type P via mass maintenance. To do this, in mass maintenance, choose the attribute Procurement (BESKZ) and the value P as the selection criteria for the object type Product. Enter the attribute Deletion Flag (LVORM) for these products.