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Exclude products that have specific product lifecycle states

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Released products and released product versions include a Product lifecycle state field. This field lets you control, among other things, which products are included during master planning. You can add, remove, and edit lifecycle states as required by going to Product information management > Setup > Product lifecycle state. For each product lifecycle state, set the Is active for planning option to Yes if products that have that state should be included during master planning. When the option is set to No, the associated products and variants will be excluded from all master planning and all calculations at the bill of materials (BOM) level.

Released products and variants where the Product lifecycle state field is left blank are treated as though they have a product lifecycle state where the Is active for planning option is set to Yes. In other words, they will be included during master planning.

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To help avoid unnecessary supply suggestions, we strongly recommend that you associate all obsolete released products and variants with a product lifecycle state where the Is active for planning option is set to No. This approach is especially important when you work with product configuration variants that aren't reusable, because it will help prevent waste.

For more information about product lifecycle states, see Product lifecycle state overview.

For detailed information that includes steps for using product lifecycle states to exclude products from master planning and BOM-level calculations, see Create a product lifecycle state to exclude products from Master planning.