Process: Discontinuing an Article 

Purpose

This process corresponds to the business process scenario: Variant 5: Discontinuing an Article.

Process

1.       Discontinue the article in the SAP system via the Assortment component.

2.       Work items are generated for every combination of layout module and store containing the article.

3.       When the work items are processed, Workflow Nr. 20000053 is executed.

4.       Decide whether article data is to be displayed prior to export or not.

–         Direct export (no display of data beforehand)

–         Function module planogram_data_read selects the articles relevant for export, along with the corresponding master data and movement data.

–         The system checks the space management profile in Customizing to locate the space management program, then exports the data.

–         Display of data to be exported:

–         Function module planogram_data_read selects the articles relevant for export, along with the corresponding master data and movement data.

–         The Listviewer displays all articles assigned to the layout module in question (assuming they have the correct listing and sales validity dates).

–         The system checks the space management profile in Customizing to locate the space management program, then exports the data.

5.       The space management program calls the read BAPI Bapi_SiteLayMod_GetItems2. The BAPI uses the function module planogram_data_read to retrieve the layout module data from the buffer and copy it to the space management program. (The space management profile in Customizing determines which data will be selected.)

6.       The space management program calls the posting BAPI Bapi_SiteLayMod_Change. This posts the data to the SAP system.

There are two user exits should you wish to insert your own custom export function modules. These occur after the read BAPI Bapi_SiteLayMod_GetItems2 has run and prior to the execution of the posting BAPI Bapi_SiteLayMod_Change.