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Cross-Plant material status, Plant-Specific Material Status
Cross-distribution-chain material status, Distribution-chain-specific material status
Material statuses in SAP are placed in transact
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Each of material status can be mapping to FSM. Status can be send with item from transaction /pacg/ecm_itemsend. There are few options:
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No send - item with selected status can’t be send to FSM. The log will inform about this action during execute transaction:
Soft delete - allows to completely remove status from fsm which was previously sent. Information is contained in outgoing idoc:
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Additional when different kind material statuses are excluding each other then error message is raised:
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For example when same company has assigned X-plant status with ‘Inactive’ FSM status and Sales status is set up as ‘Soft delete’ at once then sending program will not allow to complete process.
On FSM side, the material status is presented in Master Data section, where are displayed all items for company. When status is sent with value ‘Inactive’, then switch button is disabled. Also item can be founded by using filter ‘Inactive’.
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