Deletion of SD Sales Documents

Question

Is it possible to delete the sales orders, if no subsequent document is created. I have tried it, but unable to delete it. Again for the delivery document, if there is no subsequent document, then can we delete the delivery document ?

Hi Bala,
You can no doubt delete the sales order using transaction VA02, but there should not be any subsequent document is created against it. Please let me know the error message you are still getting unable to delete so.

Deletion /cancellation can only happen even if the subsequent documents are NOT created. As sudhir might have rightly said Sales Order with subsequent documents cannot be deleted. After cancelling the invoice and deleting the delivery document, we can set the reason for rejection at the Sales Order Header Level.

Steps:

1. Cancel the invoice through T code VF11
2. Reverse the Goods Issue using VL09, turn the pick quantity ‘zero’ in the delivery document
3. Delete the delivery document using VL02n.
4. Finally set the reason for rejection at the Sales Order Header Level. (So Bala, just check the SO you want to delete ever had any subsequent document? )
Note: An Invoice cannot be deleted but canceled. It can only be canceled with (VF11) only if the relevant accounting document is not generated. Generation of accounting document means the value is posted into accounts and G/L accounts are hit.
SAP FI department needs to reverse the accounting doc on a real-time scenario. Only after the accounting doc is reversed invoice can be canceled. Tax documents generated through the Invoice (Tax is maintained on a separate account) also need to be reversed but this is a part of FI so an SD consultant just needs to request the FICO guy to do the reversal.