ILM Objects in SAP Retail

The SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) component supports the entire software lifecycle including the storage, retention, blocking, and deletion of data.

SAP Retail provides ILM objects that enhances the archiving objects with the information for data retention. An ILM object contains the settings for the ILM rules that define the duration of the retention period to be determined as well as the time reference and the time offset for determining the start date of the retention period. You can use conditions to restrict the validity of each rule.

Prerequisites

You have activated the business function Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). For information about activating SAP Information Lifecycle Management, see Activating SAP ILM.

Features

In SAP Retail, the following archiving objects are assigned to ILM objects.

ILM Object	Description	Archiving Object(s)	Available Condition Fields	Available Time References	Policy Categories
SD_AGREEM	Agreements	Agreements (SD_AGREEM)	Rebate Agreement Type (ABTYP) Agreement Type (BOART) Purchasing Organization (EKORG) Application (KAPPL) Division (SPART) Sales Organization (VKORG) Distribution Channel (VTWEG)	End of Validity Period (END_OF_VALIDITY) End of Year (END_OF_YEAR)	Retention Rules
W_KALK	Pricing documents (document headers)	Pricing Documents (W_KALK)		WKBP-VKKBI	Retention Rules
W_MARKDOWN	Markdown plans	Markdown plans (W_MARKDOWN )		COMPLETION_DATE	Retention Rules
W_PROMO_AD	Promotions	Retail Promotions for BFS Retail (W_PROMO_AD)		COMPLETION_DATE	Retention Rules
W_SOR	Assortments	Assortment Modules and Listing Conditions (W_SOR)	BS_COUNTRY_OF_BUKRS	COMPLETION_DATE	Retention Rules
WS_ACSITE	Site Master Records	Site Master Records (WS_ACSITE)	BS_COUNTRY_OF_WERKS VLFKZ	END_OF_YEAR START_RET_DATE	Retention Rules

Activities

Before data archiving, you must define retention periods in SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

You view the general settings of the ILM object categories delivered by SAP and define the settings for ILM rules in the ILM Retention Management Cockpit or ILM Retention Warehouse Cockpit for Administrators under Services for Settings or in Customizing for SAP NetWeaver under Application Server Basis Services Information Lifecycle Management Data Archiving Retention Management (transaction IRM_CUST).
For more information, see Making Customizing Settings for ILM Rules.
You assign ILM objects to audit areas in Customizing for SAP NetWeaver under Application Server Basis Services Information Lifecycle Management Data Archiving Retention Warehouse Audit Area Settings Define Audit Areas (transaction ILMARA).
For more information, see Processing Audit Areas.
You define ILM policies in transaction IRMPOL.
For more information, see Editing ILM Policies.

Note Note

To be able to block and control the deletion of customer and vendor master data, you must activate the business function ILM-Based Deletion of Customer and Vendor Master Data (ERP_CVP_ILM_1).

For more information, see ILM-Based Deletion of Customer and Vendor Master Data.

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More Information

Using ILM Retention Management in the Application System

Archiving Data in SAP Retail

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