Product Status 

Definition

Set type for setting the product status. At present the statuses available for products are Locked and To Archive. The statuses Deleted, Archived, and Archivable can only be set by the archiving programs.

Use

If you set the status Locked for a product, this means the product can no longer be accessed by other applications. For example:

●     No new sales orders can be created for the product.

●     The product catalog is informed that the product is locked and the product no longer appears in the catalog.

You may want to lock a product for other applications for the following reasons:

●     You have created a product in CRM but have not yet finished working on it. You want to complete and release it at a later point in time.

●     The product has been downloaded to the CRM Server and contains errors. It should not be used for the time being.

●     The product is a seasonal product.

This status is only significant if the product has been saved in an active form. For inactive products, it has no further effect, as they cannot be seen by other applications.

If you set the status To Archive, the active product is flagged for archiving. During the archiving process, the status is set to Archivable if archiving has been activated in the system and the product is not used in any applications, such as the order. If the product is, however, being used, the product will not be checked again until a certain amount of time (customizable) has passed.

Archived products can be displayed from product maintenance by choosing Environment  ® Archived Products.

For more information about archiving, see Archiving the SAP Product.

For more information about statuses, see Status Management.

Integration

When a material is downloaded from the ERP system, the product status is set to To Archive if the material has a deletion flag at material header level (MARA-LVORM).

The status Locked is set for configurable materials, as these products cannot currently be archived in the CRM Server.

The sales status is set according to the ERP sales status (MVKE-VMSTA) and the ERP deletion flag at distribution chain level. The deletion flag MVKE-LVORM is transferred as the sales status Blocked (Warning) provided a higher sales status is not already set.

When a product is uploaded with the product status To Archive, the ERP deletion flag is set in the material header (MARA-LVORM). The sales status cannot be transferred to the ERP system automatically.

If you would like to transfer the sales status to the ERP system, you can implement the appropriate mapping in a user exit. For more information, see the document Customer Enhancements for Download/Upload Product Master Data in SAPNet ® mySAP Business Suite ® mySAP Customer Relationship Management ® Solution Library ® CRM Powered by NetWeaver ® Information Integration ®Master Data Management ® Product ®Product Data Exchange.