How to block a material from being sold, purchased, used?

[Former Member]

How can you block an obsolete material from further use, or to block a materials that was created incorrectly?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Steve,

The reason why you see materials which are blocked for purchasing is as

follows.

A material can be purchased, sold and it can also be present in the

inventory. When you block it for purchasing you can always sell it and

also it can be present in your inventory. Also sales can be blocked but

you cannot delete it from the inventory. Hence you see this material

although Sales and Purchasing is blocked.

1. How to make a Material Obsolete?

Material is a Master Data, so once it is created then its not possible

to delete but you can block the material partically. You are allowed to

block only the Sales and Purchasing of a material and status of

Logistics, Planning, Availability Confirmation, and Valuation are not

allowed to block. The reason for this behavior is, if the material is

used for Logistics, Planning, Availability Confirmation, and Valuation,

blocking the status will end up in inconsistencies in the Business

transaction Documents whichever uses the Material.

2. What is the status of the Material after blocking the Sales and

Purchasing "Blocked"?

When you set the status to "Blocked" for Sales and Purchasing, then

those materials cannot be consumed by any Sales (CRM) and Purchasing

(SRM) business transactions. You may find the Material in the value help

but when you assign, system will throw error message.

Thanks

Lokesh Sharma

[BettinaSch]

We do have a similar issue concering materials for obsolete logistcs areas.

We set the logistic site and the corresponding logistic areas obsolete, since they can't be used anymore. Now I would like to change the material master data for logistics. But the logistics status for the obsolete site can't be set to obsolete or blocked (see screenshot). Is there any chance to maintain this in the material master data?

Looking forward to your reply.

[Former Member]

When you block the incorrect item from Sales the person creating a Sales Order can still see the item in the List Of Values.

To avoid confusion around the error message we have changed the P/N description to add "DO NOT USE". Then the user will know that P/N is invalid.

Jim

[former_member131434]

Open the material in the Workcenter "Product Portfolio" -> view all, and set the status fields to "blocked" on all relevant tabs ("Purchasing", "Sales") to prevent the corresponding business processes to use this material.

Regards Michael

[parveen_kumar6]

Hello Steve

You may refer to the the discussion forum.

You can block the Material for Purchasing and Sales, then those Materials are never used for Sales and Purchasing. Which means no new entries of these materials can be created in the system. But Material which have already in Logistics (or in any SCM process) will remain unaffected.

Steps to block a Product:

1. Go to Product Data work center.
2. Select Materials or Services view.
3. Select a Material or Service.
4. Select View All button.
5. Go to respective Business area tab (Purchasing and Sales). 
6. Change the status from Active to Blocked

Thanks

Parveen Kumar