Wrong Material Valuation Class

Hi Guru's,
Created a material with the wrong valuation class. It seems that changing the valuation class requires quite an important procedure as per the message I get from SAP. This particular sku exists for a while and has lots of documents already created and stock of material has been posted.
Please can someone tell me what is the impact of keeping the wrong valuation class? Is that a field that we absolutely need to change or could we exceptionally keep it that way?
If we have to change the valuation class could you please tell me what are the steps I would need to go through in order to do so?? Do you recommend recreating a new sku with the correct valuation class ??
Please advice.
Best Regards,
Yasmeen

Hi,
If you want to change valuation class in material master, you should check the following:                                                                               
1. First be sure that no stocks in actual period exist, if you want to    
   change the valuation class in current period.                          
   There has to be no stock in previous period if you want to change      
   valuation class in previous period.                                                                               
2. SE16 ->table EKPO. Select all PO items of the related material.        
   If you found items with LOEKZ <> 'L' you have to delete them in ME22   
   (see note 102653).  
[Chnge valtion clss in spite of open purchase orders|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/102653]                                                                               
3. SE16 ->table AFPO. Select all items of the related material/plant.     
   If you find at least one item, change of val.clss. is not possible.    
   You have to these production order(s) ! (see note 146241)    
[Change valuation class for open production orders|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/146241]
These hard restriction are necessary as inconsistencies in account 
assignment will follow after change of val.cass, when proceeding follow up functions of a PO item before and after changing valuation class. Please take a look to note 160970 too, and read explanations carefully.                                                                               
[Change valuation class: production order/purchase order|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/160970] 
If you have the Material Ledger active, the change of the valuation class
has also impact on ML. The valuation class is used to allocate the plan costs to the related cost           
element. Please see the notes
[Incorr cost comp split for price when changing valuation cl|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1388546]
I hope this information helps.
Regards,
MLM

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