Product Status

The statuses available for products are Locked and To Archive. The statuses Deleted, Archived, and Archivable can only be set by the archiving programs.

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 might want to prevent a product from being used by other applications for the following reasons:

You have created a product in SAP 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 SAP CRM and contains errors. It should not be used for the time being.
The product is a seasonal product.

If you set the status To Archive, the 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 sales orders. If the product is, however, being used, the product will not be checked again until a certain amount of time (customizable) has passed.

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 SAP ECC, the product status is set to To Archive if the material has a deletion flag at material header level (MARA-LVORM).

Note Note

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

End of the note.

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 SAP ECC automatically.

If you want to transfer the sales status to SAP ECC, you can implement the appropriate mapping in a user exit. For more information, see the document CRM Products: Customer Enhancements for Downloading and Uploading Product Master Data, which is available as an attachment in Note 428989.