Archiving in Delivery Processing (SCM-ECT-DLP)

Use

You can use archiving to remove data records for warehouse requests that are no longer required in the system from the database.

Integration

Delivery Processing uses the SAP NetWeaver data archiving.

Prerequisites

The documents to be archived must have the status Completed and the retention period of the documents must have expired.

Features

Report /SCDL/BO_ARCHIVE

You use this report for all documents whose expiry date has been reached to change their status from Completed to To Be Archived. You define the retention period of the documents via the document type. In the selection screen of the report, you can select the documents to be archived via the selection criteria document type and document identification. You can also define whether the detailed log is to be displayed on the user interface after running the report or whether it is to be saved. You can also simulate a program run. You can schedule this report to run in the background or you can start it manually.

Archiving Objects from Delivery Processing

Each document category is assigned to an archiving object that contains exact information about which data the system is to archive and how.

Document Category	Archiving Object
Inbound Delivery Notification	DLV_REQ
Inbound Delivery	DLV_INB
Outbound Delivery Request	DLV_REQ
Outbound Delivery Order	DLV_OUT
Outbound Delivery	DLV_OUT
Posting Change	DLV_OUT
Posting Change Request	DLV_REQ
Stock Transfer	DLV_OUT
Production Material Request	DLV_PROD

The archiving objects provide a series of actions that you can use in the archive administration (transaction SARA) for the data records in Delivery Processing.

Activities

Preparing Documents for Archiving

Before archiving, you have to change the status of all the documents to be archived whose expiry date has been exceeded from Completed to To Be Archived.

Choose transaction /SCDL/BO_ARCHIVE.
In the selection screen, enter the document type and the document identification of the documents that you want to archive.
Choose Execute.

Note
You can also schedule this report to run in the background.

Archiving

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver at http://help.sap.com/nw Information published on SAP site . In SAP Library, choose Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability Solution Lifecycle Management by Key Capability Data Archiving End of the navigation path .