You can archive the costing results of base planning objects and delete them from the database.

Base planning objects can be archived independently of other archiving programs.

There are no specific Customizing settings you need to make in order to archive base planning objects. You can, however, set general values for archiving, such as the name, the path, and the size of the archive file in Customizing.

Depending on the amount of data, each cost estimate (excluding costing items) requires approximately 2,200 bytes of storage space. Each item requires an additional 750 bytes. Long texts require additional space, depending on the length of the text.

You need the following authorizations to be able to archive material cost estimates:

• General archiving authorization: authorization object S_ARCHIVE with:

• Authorization object K_CKBS
• Authorization object S_ADMIN_FCD for printing and using the spool
• Authorization object S_BTCH_JOB for archiving, deleting, and reloading data, and for the read program in batch processing

You can call these functions from the menu as follows: Accounting ® Controlling ® Product Cost Controlling ® Product Cost Planning ® Environment ® Archiving ® Base Planning Object.

The following table provides an overview of the functions available from this initial screen: