Product Category Deletion in SRM (not with Hierarchy)

Hello All,
Certain Product categories are to be deleted in SRM which belong to different R3 Back end systems
I tried the COMM_HIERARCHY Tx in SRM and did the following:
Select the Product assigned to the relebvant Back end system and delete manually
But I observed that there are dependencies as in case this P Category is assigned to some Pgrps as RESP_PRCAT
in which case , this assignment is to be deleted prior to deleting the Pcategory from the system
It is a huge and manual work.
Did anybody come across such a scenario?
Are there any standard reports by SAP or customized reports developed which can be made use of?
regards,
Nagarajan

Hi,
Use the following reports
COM_PRODUCT_DELETE_ALL Used to delete product master data.
COM_PRODUCT_DELETE_SINGLE Used to delete product master data.
For executing above reports please register your user id and program names in below table then only you can execute above reports.COMC_PR_TOOL_REG
Hope this helps,
Abraham

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