http://www.sap4u.org/media/userfiles/articles/pdf/33.

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The field for deletion flag is LVORM in all material master tables. But the significance differs from table to
table. In mara if LVORM means deletion flag at client level, in MARC it means at plant level, in MARD it
means at plant and storage location level and so on.
Try CAUFV, AUFK, AFKO AFPO, Depending on what you need it should be in 1 of these.

Dear Kishore,

You cannot delete the material from material master until archiving. To archive the material master, first goto transaction
MM71.

Archiving Material Master:
Transaction SARA contains all the SAP archiving objects for all the SAP R/3 applications modules. All the SAP archive
functions are shown in SARA. Choose the corresponding SAP archive object, hit enter and the archive administration menu
will be shown. Provided here will be an example on how to archive the SAP Material Master.

Archive a Material Master Record

When a material is no longer required in a company or plant, you can archive and delete the material master record.

You have to Flag the material master record for deletion. This is known as logical deletion.

Before a material master record can be archived and deleted, other objects (such as purchasing documents) that refer to
this material must themselves be archived. You can see which objects these are and the dependencies between them in the
network graphic.

If a material master record cannot be archived and deleted at a given organizational level, the reason is given in the log (for
example, a purchase order exists for the material). The log also contains technical data such as the number of material
master records read and the number deleted.

Some of the archive error log message :-

Costing data exists
Use in routing
Use in sales and distribution
Use in bill of material
Delivery exists
Costing data exists
Info record exists
Purchase order exists
The Archiving steps :-
Archiving object MM_MATNR for archiving material master records.

You can display the archived data, but not reload it.

To archive the material master, first goto transaction MM71.

Type in a variant name and click Maintain. (Tick the Test Mode for archive simulation).

Save the variant.

Maintain the Start date and Spool parameters and click execute.

Click Goto Job Overview to check the archive status.


To do a permanent delete, goto transaction SARA and click Delete button.

Maintain the Archive Selection, Start date and Spool parameters.

Click Test Session for testing or click execute to start the deletion program.

Click Goto Job Overview to check the delete status.

Now, if you goto MM02/MM03, you will not be able to find the record in the material master.

Regards,
Naveen.





Transaction: SARA











Hi
You cant delete completely from the system (not possible)..
But you can archieve the material (if it is not used, doent have stock)
with transaction SARA
And after SARA you must run the program MMREO110N with transaction SE38
to not to see the archieved at table MARA..
Regards

In standard it is not possible to archive just one org element of a material.
to do this you have to follow the instruction given in OSS Note 543279

New material created on 14-9-2014 in DEV 110 client

























http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/ad/b594429d7c0631e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
http://saptribalknowledge.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/delete-material-masters-without-archiving/
Data Archiving
Generally large amounts of database data is produced in the production system of a business application,
which often times is reflected in a deterioration of system performance and an increased use of resources.
Costs can also be negatively affected by large data volumes, since resources and efforts spent on database
administration go up as a result.
Therefore, data from closed business processes, meaning data that is no longer needed in every day business
processes, should be moved out of the database, in order to gain a reduction in costs, and improve
performance and system availability. Simply deleting this data is often not a valid option, due to legal data
retention requirements. This means that the data has to be removed from the database and stored in such a
way that it is always accessible for reading if necessary. This is the task of SAP Data Archiving, which allows
you to removed data from the database and store it in a consistent and secure manner. The archived data is
stored in a file system and from there can be moved to other, more cost efficient storage media.

Data archiving is an administrative task that must be performed regularly, particularly if you are
facing fast growing data volumes. How often you archive largely depends on the growth rate of
your database tables.
The technological foundation of data archiving is located in the SAP NetWeaver Application Server and is
available in two different variations:
ADK-based Archiving - ADK-based archiving is used only by ABAP applications that employ ABAP
archiving objects in their data archiving projects.
XML-based Archiving - XML-based archiving is employed for XML archiving objects that are used by
ABAP applications with XML interfaces, and for archiving sets used by JAVA applications.











Time 3:00 PM dated 15-9-2014.
Production client 100
Material : 350202-00102-fk





















Transaction: SARA





Write

Execute the above



Press the Job icon on the menu



Delete the record