3339385 - Exclude Product Category Status “Obsolete” During Material Cost Estimate Rollup

When performing a Run for Material Cost estimate Rollup system includes Product Category status “Obsolete” . you want to know how to exclude Product Category status “Obsolete”

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1. Go to the Inventory Valuation - Material Cost Estimate Rollup view.
2. Search for Run ID.
3. Execute the run and go to the Execution Details.
4. Under Processed Successfully tab and you can see Materials with Product Category status “Obsolete” is included in the run.

This issue occurs because forecasting group is an association of the product category hierarchy. Hence product with status obsolete as product category are also getting picked up.

When you Create Cost Estimate Run, Under the Product Category ID field exclude obsolete product category and also exclude all the forecasting group that are used in the Materials.

It allows you to save the run and execute it to get the expected output.

You can also refer to KBA: https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2923392

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