Dear Experts,
Further to the following Forum –
http://scn.sap.com/thread/3505830
I recently tested to archieve a Finished Good Material and found the following errors -
Error 1 –
MARC: 8200 planned order exists
Message no. W4008
Diagnosis
A planned order exists for the material. Procedure Delete the planned order. You can then archive the material.
Error 2 –
MARC: 8200 assignments (product group/planning) exist
Message no. W4024
Procedure
Delete the assignment of the material to the product group. You can then archive the material.
Error 3 –
MBEW: 8200 plant is assigned to the valuation area
Message no. W4031
Diagnosis
The material cannot be archived for this valuation area since the material is still used in dependent tables.
Procedure
Delete these dependencies. You can then archive the material for the valuation area.
Error 4 –
MARC: 8200 internal use of the material
Message no. W4107
Diagnosis
The material is still being used internally by another material.
Possible ways in which the material is being used:
As a pricing reference material
As a configurable material
As a follow-up material
As a manufacturer part number
The material may be in use both at material level and at plant level.
Error 5 –
MARA: Dependent material master data still exists
Message no. W4134
For the Error 1, the above Forum had advised to check table PLAF and then found some Planned Orders for the Material in there. Would like to ask –
Q1) Why the Planned Orders could not be found in some transactions such as MD04 / MD16 (collective display planned orders) but could only be found in the table PLAF ?
For your ref., the following error was found when inputting those Planned Orders in MD14 (convert planned order to PR) –
Simulation planned orders cannot be converted
Message no. MD132
Diagnosis
The planned order selected is a simulative planned order from long-term planning. In long-term planning, the system only creates planned orders. These planned orders are not converted into either production orders or purchase requisitions. System Response Planned orders that are created in long-term planning cannot be converted. They are used to check the effects of the simulative demand program on production and procurement. Thus, a preview is availble of the planned demand program. The planned orders are changed or replanned in the operative planning run.
Q2) After deleting the Planned Orders found in the table PLAF using MD12 and then tested to archieve again, the above Error 1 was not found, but the rest of 4 Errors were still found. According to the above Forum (msg on 2014-2-27 7:52), the Error 5 (Message no. W4134) is a warning and will be fixed AFTER the other Errors have been fixed. Is it correct ?
Q3) Anyway, could you advise how to solve the above Errors 2-5 ?
Ref. SAP Note 900537 –
For Error 3 (W4031) - Plant is assigned to the valuation area:
The material cannot be archived for this valuation area since the material is still used in dependent tables. Delete these dependencies. You can then archive the material for the valuation area. This message is created when the MARC entry for valuation area has a check error, but there is no check error for the assigned MBEW entry.
Actually no exact solution on the above info. ?
For Error 4 (W4107) - Internal use of the material:
First, error message W4107 indicates that the material is used as an internal material for another material. Go to table MARA for this material and check fields BMATN and MFRPN.
Please call the function 'MG_BEZUG_MARA_CHECK' with the material and it should give you back a flag, if article is used or not
Also it can be possible that the material is used in table fields
MARA-PMATA
MARA-PMATN
MARC-NFMAT
MARC-STDPD
MARA-BMATN
MVKE-PMATN
Does it mean that we have to write program to call function 'MG_BEZUG_MARA_CHECK' to fix this error ?
For Error 5 (W4134) - Dependent material master data still exists:
Please refer note 561972. Also delete the routings / BOMs / PO for these Materials.
For the note 561972, does it mean that we have to apply Correction “SAP_APPL” ? If so, which Correction no. is suitable for ERP 2005 ? If the above Q2 is correct, is it still required to apply this Correction ?
Looking forward to hearing from your reply.
Many Thanks,
KH Fong