Switching ON Batch Management

Hi Gurus,
Need your help. I am sure you have done this before
In a live system, I need to switch ON Batch Management. Till now these materials were managed without Batch Management. So they have stock on hand, open sales orders, open deliveries, open invoices, open purchase orders.
When I try to change the indicator in MM02, it lists all those open transactional data. I possibly have to reverse/cancel all those open orders etc - then write off the stock - then switch on batch management - then finally re-enter all the open orders.
But to do it manually is a monumental task. Also, it needs to be done in a very short time frame. Can you please suggest any program or automated/semi-automated way to do it.
Or is there any other smarter way you can suggest.
I appreciate your help.
Regards
Bis

Hi Venkat,
Thanks a lot for your suggested notes. They are helpful indeed.
Would you by any chance know of any report that I can run for a range of materials which will list all the open documents, ie, sales orders, deliveries, billing documents ?
And, other than MM03, is there any report which will list the stock in previous period ?
Thanks again.
Regards
BP

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I maitained a material with batch management, I want to cancel batch managment now. But I have do the goods reciept and the batch number is already created. Even I cancel the goods reciept, MSC2N set the deletion flag for this batch number.the system still not allow me to change the setting.
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Please refer OSS Notes#533383.
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Hi Gurus,
I have defined a free goods master data for material on which batch is activated. I have defined the it as with a min of 10 qty 1 free good will be delivered as exclusive item
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Edited by: Abaper Abaper on Jul 10, 2008 12:31 PM
Edited by: Abaper Abaper on Jul 10, 2008 12:32 PM

Hi Abaper,
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