Articles: Article Discontinuation 
Use
· To disallow the procurement of the article
Here, you have the following options:
¡ Article discontinuation
The article may no longer be procured internally or externally.
¡ Article/site discontinuation
The article may no longer be procured internally or externally for specific sites, or sold in them.
¡ Article/vendor discontinuation
The article may no longer be procured from one or more specific vendors for any of the company's sites.
¡ Article/vendor/site discontinuation
The article may no longer be procured from a specific vendor for specific sites. However, these sites may procure the article from other sources of supply.
As a result, the article is flagged for deletion accordingly. As a result, certain functions can no longer be carried out for it.
You discontinue an article for several sites. As a result, the article can no longer be ordered for these sites.
· To archive and delete the article from the database
For more
information on archiving and deletion, see the SAP library documentation CA Application Data Archiving 
Archiving Material
Master Records (LO-MD-MM).
Integration
The system can
propose articles to be discontinued (such as articles with very low sales
revenue). If you confirm that the articles are to be discontinued, the system
will discontinue them automatically. For more information, see Assortment: Exception
Analysis and Automatic Article Discontinuation.
Prerequisites
Disallowing Procurement
Definition of Standard Tasks
You have defined the following standard tasks as general tasks in the business workflow (Tools ® ABAP Workbench ®Development ®Workflow®Definition tools ®Tasks/Task groups):
· 2000 0043
· 2000 0047
· 2000 0053
· 2000 0060
Event Linkage
You have activated the following events with the respective workflow template. You do this from the Maintain Task screen (transaction PFTC) by displaying the respective workflow template and choosing Triggering events. You then select the event as required and choose Edit®Event®Activate/deactivate event linkage.
Type |
Object type |
Event |
Workflow template |
Client |
BUS1001 |
STARTMATNRDEL |
2000 0024 |
Site |
BUS1001 |
STARTPLANTMATNRDEL |
2000 0023 |
Vendor |
BUS3003 |
STARTVENDORMATNRDEL |
2000 0026 |
Vendor and site |
BUS3003 |
STARTVEEKPLAMATNRDEL |
2000 0034 |
Error Messages
You have specified a person responsible for processing error messages. You specify this person in Customizing for the Article Master in Assign Retail Tasks to PD Organization.
Activities
Disallowing Procurement
After you have specified the articles to be discontinued, the system checks whether this is possible and lists the articles as follows:
· Articles checked without errors
If you now select these articles for discontinuation, the system sets a deletion flag. If the discontinuation date of the article is in the future, the system starts a workflow that sets the deletion flag for the discontinuation date specified.
· Articles checked with errors
If you now select these articles for discontinuation, the system starts a workflow. The person responsible for processing the error(s) concerned is informed in his or her inbox. The workflow repeats the check until all of the errors have been processed. It then flags the articles for deletion accordingly.
Archiving and Deletion
The system starts the archive and delete program to delete articles.