Prerequisite of activating batch management

Hello there,
I've seen a lot of posts saying PR, PO, Plan order Production order must be clear before activating batch management for a material.  But when we test with our system, it is allowed to activate batch management for the material even there is open PO / planned orders.  Only not allowed for open SO.
Would like to confirm what is the real answer.  PS, currently we have not made any change to confirgration about batch management.  Would it make some difference of system behavior? 
Thanks.

Please review the following notes and KBA
30656       Change base unit of measure/batch management requirement
1521082   Error M3530: Change Material to Batch Managed OR Non Batch
                 Managed (field MARA-XCHPF)
533276     Setting batch management requirement
As advised in note 30656, changing the batch indicator can only be performed when there is no existing stock in present and previous period. The system behaves like this due to possible inconsistencies that would occur if you post goods movements for previous periods when there was no batch management.
You will need to delete any open documents and reverse any material movements on this material. If batches (even zero stock batches!) are still assigned to the material you must delete them and reorganize the tables MCH1, MCHA and MCHB.
At this point the flag could be changed.
Please also consider the following...
1) If you want to change the batch management, it is not enough to check for stock. You must also reorganize all existing batches for the material. You can do this using the TA MM73 and MM74 or SARA. After you have reorganized the batches you should be able to change the batch management. The Object to use in the txn SARA is MM_SPSTOCK.
You must first set the deletion flag for the batch using txn MCH2.
2) If you have defined the batch level in the TA OMCE to 'unique at material level' it is not possible to turn off the batch management flag in one plant. You can can only turn it off for all plants at the same time. That means if you want to turn it off, the system checks all plants for the existence of stock. In other words, the batch management flag will be the same for all plants at any time if you use the batch level 'unique at material level'.
I hope this can help!

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