Valuation category absent

Question

dear experts.
In My material Master valuation category is missing,i want to maintain this.
for this material stock and batches are already avaialble.
for stock ,i can be able to remove the stock,
But for the batches i can't ,system gives an error for batch already exist.
pls suggest as soon as possible.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

archiving is a process rather than a transaction, it requires customizing and good process understanding.
Archiving means KEEPING date outside of SAP production tables, it is not jsut deleting, as the data may still be needed for internal and external audits. maybe for ten or more years.
Before you can archive a batch, you may have to archive other objects, where this batch was used.
This can be seen in SARA. Enter MM_SPSTOCK then click the network button.
If you still do not give up and create a new material, as this is certainly the quicker solution, then you need to define where you want store your archived data and then customize the logical and physical paths and file names. Best you do this step together with your basis team.
The customizing can be done via the customizing button in SARA transaction.
Further you have to define how big your archive shall be, and if you want delete immediatly after writing the archive automatically or if you want do that as extra step manually.
You have to define your test and production variants in customizing too.
Next is clicking the write button, give a variant name and continue to maintain your selection screen.
Then schedule the job and execute it.
Check the spool for messages, it tells you whether it could archive or not and if not why not.
More can be read:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/8d/3e59fd462a11d189000000e8323d3a/frameset.htm
and
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/2e/9396345788c131e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm