Deleting PP/DS Orders

Background
APO has a well known transaction called /N/SAPAPO/RLCDEL which will delete SNP
orders. Deleting orders is often necessary when dialing in APO in order to remove orders
that are unwanted. However, deleting PP/DS orders have a different transaction/program.
This program must be run from SE38 and is /SAPAPO/DELETE_PP_ORDER.

Once the program is typed in, select the green checkbox to run the program. This will
bring up the selection screen.

The order category can be selected which can AI or AJ and then running this with the
order category selected and any other sub categorizations of say location or product will
run the delete job for just that portion of the supply network.
Below, in the control parameters, the Delete Orders must be selected. If the Display
Orders selection is only selected, then SAP will simply show you what is to be deleted.
The final selection, Send Deletion will delete the production orders from SAP ERP as
well as from APO.
Sticky Production Planning Orders
However, not all production planning orders can be deleted so easily. When the program
above is run, but does not delete planned production orders, it becomes necessary to
delete them in ERP. This ERP transaction is CO78.

We will select Deletion flag/ Deletion Indictor. This will bring up the screen below.

Next this screen will come up.

We will select For Individual Selection Screens and then the first selection, and once on
the selection screen, the first problem presents itself. That is that the order type listed here
does not match the order type in APO. The order type in APO that we are attempting to
delete is AI, which is a planned PP/DS order.