Archiving purchase orders of a specific order-type

Question

hello,
does anyone have a simple-doc or plan for archiving purchase orders. archiving for dummy's as I have never done this?
points to be taken into consideration:
- order of a specific type (ZRL0)
- order must be older then 10 days
thanks,

Answer 1

Hi,
In order to archive PO's , there are a number of considerations that must be taken into account.
The archiving program SARA -> MM_EKKO , Write , does a large number of checks before archiving can be done.
The first step is to go to SARA -> MM_EKKO , customizing. In here , you can specifiy what kind of documents you want to archive and specify the retention period (document life) for each type of document.
For example :
Go to C MM-PUR : Reorganization PO
You will find several type of PO Doc types
DB     Dummy purchase order           Standard
NB     Standard PO           Standard
NB     Standard PO     K     Consignment
NB     Standard PO     L     Subcontracting
NB     Standard PO     S     Third-party
NB     Standard PO     D     Service
UB     Stock transport ord.     U     Stock transfer
Suppose you want to archive Standard PO's  , go into the customizing option and then set the residence time 1 and residence time 2.
Res time 1 is the number of days which must elapse after which a deletion indicator can be set for the document. The elapsed days are calculated from the last change date of the document record in EKKO table.
Res time 2 is the number of days which must elapse after which a document with a deletion indicator can be actually deleted out of the EKKO table.
Once the customizing is finished , then you should run the SARA Preprocessing job (which sets the deletion indicators for the selected set of documents) , then the write job (which will write the DLT status documents to an archive file) and then the delete step (which will remove documents from the EKKO and other related Purchasing tables. TO get a trailer of what gets archived and deleted , run the archive write job in "Test" Mode , rather than "Production" mode.
Hope this helps.
-Chandra