Your system administrator archives outline purchase agreements at certain time intervals. Archived documents are removed from the database.
You archive outline agreements as follows:
Outline agreement
® Contract (or Scheduling agreement) ® Follow-on functions ® Archive.You can generate a list of archived agreements as follows:
Outline agreements
® Analyses ® Archived purchasing documents.For detailed information on archiving purchasing documents, refer to the documentation Cross-Application Components, under CA Archiving Application Data (section on
MM Materials Management).This database-oriented archiving must be distinguished from document archiving in optical archiving systems by means of SAP ArchiveLink. If ArchiveLink is used and the appropriate settings are made in ArchiveLink Customizing and Message Customizing in Purchasing, outline agreements that have been outputted as messages can be optically archived. You can view optically archived agreements from within the SAP document display via Environment
For more detailed information, refer to the section Storing Outgoing Purchasing Documents (MM - PUR). in the Basis documentation BC SAP ArchiveLink - Application Scenarios.