Material statuses can be managed in transaction /pacg/ecm_istat which is placed in Item folder. The customize allows set up 2 kind material statuses per company:
Cross-Plant material status, Plant-Specific Material Status
Cross-distribution-chain material status, Distribution-chain-specific material status
Each of material status can be mapping to FSM. Status can be send with item from transaction /pacg/ecm_itemsend. There are few options:
Active - send ‘Active’ status to FSM. Status is not visible in idoc because that is the default value
Inactive - in outbound idoc /PACG/ECM_ITYPE_ITEM in segment /PACG/ECM_IS_CONTROL is placed field ‘Inactive’ which inform about that status. Only when material has active status this information appears.
No send - item with selected status can’t be send to FSM. The log will inform about this action:
Soft delete - allows to completely remove status from fsm which was previously sent. Information is contained in outgoing idoc:
Additional when different kind material statuses are excluding each other then error message is raised:
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’.
