Material Group clean up

Hello Everybody,
Our procurement department suggested a clean up of the material groups. So we need to remove  and rename some materialgroups. We are on SAP ECC 6.0 and I  would love some advice n how to remove/delete material groups. is that possible or do we need to archive ? What are the consequences financially if we can ddelete material groups ? I we cannot delete how can we make sure the material groups which are not active anymore are no visible in de LOV when creating a purchase order ?
Thanks!

Hi Stork,
You can delete the material groups in the following path which is purely customising :
SproLogistics - GeneralMaterial MasterSettings for Key FieldsDefine Material Groups.
Points to be noted before deleting :
All your Master data will be effected.
All open purchase orders will be effected.
Suggestions :
Create a new material groups wherever required and then replace the same in Master Data( Material Master / Inforecords )
Make sure that all open PO are closed and archived.
Once this is done u can delete in the above said customising path.
Regards
Ramesh Ch

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