How To Fix W4201 - &: & status entries (material maintenance status) were deleted

W4201 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: W4 - Messages for material discontinuation

• Message number: 201

• Message text: &: & status entries (material maintenance status) were deleted

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message W4201 - &: & status entries (material maintenance status) were deleted ?

  Certainly! Here's a detailed explanation regarding the SAP error message W4201:
  
  SAP Message W4201:
  Message Text:
  & status entries (material maintenance status) were deleted
  
  1. 
  Cause:
  
  The message W4201 is a warning indicating that one or more material maintenance status entries have been deleted from the material master.
  This typically occurs when a user or a process removes status entries that control the maintenance or processing of material master data.
  Material maintenance statuses are used to restrict or allow changes to certain views or fields in the material master.
  Deletion of these entries might happen due to:
  Manual deletion by a user in transaction MM02 or related material master maintenance transactions.
  Programmatic deletion via custom code or standard SAP programs.
  Data cleanup or correction activities.
  
  
  The system issues this warning to inform that certain status entries, which might have controlled material maintenance, no longer exist.
  
  
  2. 
  Solution:
  
  Review the deleted status entries:
  Check which material maintenance status entries were deleted.
  Identify if the deletion was intentional