Blocking Material Master for Workflow
Dear colleagues,
We are customizing creating and changing of material master workflow, i.e., screens will be generated by various people and supervisors of the initiators will be approved. For this purpose, I use Business Object BUS1001006 to serve it. But my problem is when a material master is created or changed in one of the views; I want to block that material in use of PO or whatsoever until confirmation is done by respected supervisor. Is there any field available, like in vendor master (LFA1 u2013 CONFS and LFB1 u2013 CONFS), in material master tables like MARA, MARD or etc?
Best regards,
Dear,
You can very well acheive the functionality which you are expecting.
You can block the material in MM06...here set the deletion flag....
Now set the message as Error for Message number ME 051 in the below mentioned path:
Spro-MM-Purchasing-Environment Data-Define Attributes of System Messages-System messages
Now users can not create any PO with this material untill and unless you go and remove the deletion flag in MM06.
Regards
Utsav
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