Purpose
In addition to discontinuing articles manually, you can have R/3 analyze data and let you know when it is advisable to discontinue certain article. For example, you can create an exception report that lists articles with very low sales revenue. When the analysis is run, Workflow will send a work item to the person responsible for assortment planning, who can then examine the results and determine whether or not to discontinue the articles. If so, R/3 will discontinue the articles automatically.
Process Flow
Set the event coupling to the exception as active.