You can use archiving to remove data records for warehouse requests that are no longer required in the system from the database.
Delivery Processing uses the central data archiving. For more information about this service, see Introduction to Data Archiving (CA-ARC).
The documents to be archived must have the status Completed and the retention period of the documents must have expired.
You use this report for all documents whose expiry date has been reached to change their status from Completed to To Be Archived. You define the retention period of the documents via the document type.
In the selection screen of the report, you can select the documents to be archived via the selection criteria document type and document identification. You can also define whether the detailed log is to be displayed on the user interface after running the report or whether it is to be saved. You can also simulate a program run.
You can schedule this report to run in the background or you can start it manually.
If you want to archive inbound delivery notifications or outbound delivery requests, you must first execute the report for all relevant follow-on documents (inbound deliveries, outbound delivery orders, and outbound deliveries).
Each document category is assigned to an archiving object that contains exact information about which data the system is to archive and how.
Document Categories and their Archiving Objects for Delivery Processing
Document Category |
Archiving Object |
Inbound Delivery Notification |
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Inbound Delivery |
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Outbound Delivery Request |
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Outbound Delivery Order |
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Outbound Delivery |
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Posting Change |
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Posting Change Request |
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Stock Transfer |
The archiving objects provide a series of actions that you can use in the archive administration (transaction SARA) for the data records in Delivery Processing.
Before archiving, you have to change the status of all the documents to be archived whose expiry date has been exceeded from Completed to To Be Archived.
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1. Choose transaction /SCDL/BO_ARCHIVE.
2. In the selection screen, enter the document type and the document identification of the documents that you want to archive.
3. Choose Execute.
You can also schedule this report to run in the background.
For more information about the procedure for writing, deleting, and reading data records, see Archiving Procedure in data archiving (CA-ARC).