Product Categories: from replication to transport viaCOM_CATEGORY_TRANSPORT

Dear experts,
Weu2019ve implemented SRM 4.0 (SRM_SERVER 500) with multiple ECC 5.0 backends and after reading document u201CSetup, Transport and Copy of SAP EBP Systems (Version 1.4)u201D weu2019ve realized weu2019ve done some things wrong, such as: replicate product categories from backend to frontend in Quality and Productive environments instead of transporting them via report COM_CATEGORY_TRANSPORT.
Weu2019d like to go back to the right direction and here we need your help and experience.
Do you see any feasible way of doing this? Do you think this is still possible taking into account that as a consequence of replicating categories instead of transporting them weu2019ve done a lot of customizing manually?
Many thanks for your help.
Regards,

HI Dean
Thanks for the info. I have been in touch and they have recommended the following reports for deletion but these are no good as cannot us in P if documents assigned to them.
COM_HIERARCHY_DELETE_SINGLE,
COM_HIERARCHY_DELETE_ALL,
COM_PRODUCT_DELETE_SINGLE,
COM_PRODUCT_DELETE_ALL
I think we will go down the route you suggested which was option 2. I assume we would create a error message so if a NSV was selected then a error would pop up and not allow SC creation. Then I would need to load the new UNSPCC codes to the same Product Hierarchy in SRM.
Thanks for your help with this.
Sharon

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