Delete an Inventory Control Record
Find an Inventory Record
 
 
Depress the Delete button and the following message will appear:
 
 
The System will allow the users to delete an Inventory Part from the system if: 

there is no Quantity on Hand
it is not used on a BOM
there is no shortages or allocations
there is no open Purchase Orders and if the receipt has been reconciled and posted to the General Ledger 
 
Note:  When deleting an MPN - keep in mind that the MPN will be deleted from the screen but NOT from the tables. The MPN's that have been deleted are retained in the tables for history tracking purposes.   



If part has qty on hand the following message will appear and user will NOT be allowed to delete the inventory part:
If Part is associated with consigned part(s) the following message will appear and user will NOT be allowed to delete inventory part:
If part is used on a BOM the following message will appear and user will NOT be allowed to delete the inventory part:
If part has shortages or allocations the following message will appear an XL spreadsheet will be created with detailed information and user will NOT be allowed to delete the inventory part:
If part has open PO(s)  the following message will appear and user will NOT be allowed to delete the inventory part:
If part has NOT been reconciled the following message will appear and user will NOT be allowed to delete the inventory part:
If part has NOT been Posted to GL the following message will appear and user will NOT be allowed to delete the inventory part:
After receiving any of the above warnings the user then will receive this warning
 
 
 
If you do not want to loose the History, the other option you have is to change the Status of the Part from Active to Inactive rather than deleting the ICM part.  To see further detail on change the status of a part see Article #931 .