RM Material Phase Out

Hi,
How do you phase out a material, then Phase IN another material? The scenario is, i need to Phase out Material A on 12/31/2008 then replace the it with Material B on 01/01/2009 so that, the FG will use this Material B in its BOM on that date.
Thanks for your valuable inputs in advance!
Piscasio

Hi Sumeet,
Thanks for the valuable input. The Disc. Indicator and the Eff Out solves my problem.
I have a follow up question though, I do see that there are validity dates for each material/item at the BOM. But how do I change these validity dates? They are gray-ed out and un-editable.
Thanks in advance.

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Hi Piyush
You can define a status in the product master. If you are downloading the product from ECC, you can mention the reason in the material master as "Phase Out Product" and when you download this product in CRM, the status will be shown in Sales and Distribution tab against the field Status.
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I am facing one issue while running forecasting for phase in phase out profile at aggregated or base pack level.
I have a scenario in which consider base pack level is "A" and under this bas pack are product codes "B", "C" & "D"
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Hi Jignesh,
Did you check the spool list after batch job run, to see if Phase in/out is appled to the material for which life cycle is assingned. Also I would advice to go and double check all setting is dates are defined correctly etc.
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or
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