You can archive the following documents in Inventory Management and Physical Inventory:
Material documents
Physical inventory documents
Note
Reservation documents are not archived. They can be deleted using the reservations management program (refer to Managing Reservations )
SAP’s archiving tool is used for archiving documents. For more information on archiving, refer to the
BC Archiving Application Data
component
,
under
Archiving in Inventory Management (MM-IM)
.
The following archiving objects are predefined in the standard system:
MM_MATBEL
for material documents
MM_INVBEL
for physical inventory documents
To access the archiving function, proceed as follows:
From the Inventory Management menu, choose
From the Physical Inventory menu, choose
When the system archives material documents, it creates indexes and short documents that enable you to access the archived material documents quicker. When you are searching for a material document, you only have to enter the short document belonging to it and the system accesses the archive via indexes.
You also have the option of defining your own selection options. For example, as a selection criterion, you can define that only a particular vendor’s material documents are displayed.
To display archived documents, proceed as follows:
From the Inventory Management menu, choose
From the Inventory Management menu, choose
From the Physical Inventory menu, choose
For more information, see the relevant report documentation.
The Archive Information System (SAP AS) offers a wide range of options for searching for and displaying archived data. For more information, refer to the Archive Information System (SAP AS) .