SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

1919880 - How to Search for Materials That Have Been Blocked for Sales or Purchasing

Symptom

You want to search for all Materials that you have blocked for Sales or Purchasing.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Product Data work center.
  2. Select Materials view.
  3. On Advanced Search there is no option to search for Materials in Blocked status for Purchasing or Sales.

Cause

This functionality is not available in current Business ByDesign release.

Resolution

As workaround is possible to look the Sales and Purchasing status of Materials using the Mass Change functionality following the steps below

  1. Go to Product Data work center and select Products view.
  2. Select a certain amount of Materials that you want to see (use the key SHIFT from your keyboard to select a large range).
  3. Press the button 'Mass Change'.
  4. On the tab General, you will find the Purchasing status of the Materials.
  5. On the tab Sales, you will find the Sales status.

Note: This workaround is also valid for Services.

See Also

As per the knowledge base article "1619077 - Filters Do Not Work in Any Views of the Mass Change of Materials And Services", it is not possible to use filters in Mass Change screen.

Keywords

mass change, materials, search materials, blocked materials, sales, purchasing , KBA , search material blocked , SRD-MD-PRD-PRD , Product , How To

Product

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