You can use the archiving object PM_OBJLIST to archive and delete serial number histories which do not need to be accessed directly in the system.

You archive the serial numbers themselves together with the equipment (see Archiving Object PM_EQUI). You archive the documents for business operations together with the respective archiving objects.

In Customizing, configure the residence times of the serial number history for the documents (for example, for deliveries or physical inventories). In this way, you define how long the serial number history must be available in the system based on verification obligations of different duration. For more information, see Archiving Object-Specific Customizing (LO-MD-SN).

You have archived the documents belonging to the serial number. For more information about the objects which you must archive before the serial number history, see Dependencies (LO-MD-SN).

Before the system writes the database tables to the archive, it performs checks to determine whether a serial number history may already be archived. For more information, see Checks.

If these conditions are not met, the system cannot archive the serial number history. Since a large number of histories are frequently archived for serial numbers, for performance reasons, you do not receive a message if a history could not be archived.

You can use the following archiving options:

• Test run
• Archiving productively
• Archiving and deleting

You can display the archived serial number histories using the Archiving Information System (see Displaying Archived Serial Numbers (LO-MD-SN)).