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This material is already flagged for deletion at the client level, and the description has been changed which is good.

On the Basic Data 1 view, there is a field called ‘X-Plant St’.  This is the Cross-plant status field, which has been configured so that either warning or error messages appear in certain types of transactions.  I have checked your configuration, and you have a status 02 ‘Obsolete’

configured which will provide error messages for the following types of

transactions:

- Purchasing

- Creating a BOM

- Adding this item as a BOM component

- Creating a routing

- Creating a forecast

- Trying to run MRP

- Inventory Management

Please apply this status to this material, and then we can try MMBE to see if the ‘Inventory Management’ message will prevent the user from getting to the short dump.  I’m not sure if this setting only effects trying to make postings in Inventory management, or if it will give you a message even for reporting transactions.

In addition, I should point out that SAP separates the ability to perform sales transactions on a material.  There are no options with the X-Plant Status to prevent sales transactions, due to the fact that sales organisation data is not linked to plant.  So you also have the option to put a ‘X-dist-chain stat’ on the sales organisation view of the material.  The configuration of status 03 ‘Technical Defect’ is the most comprehensive, in that it will prevent all types of sales transactions from being carried out with this material.