Eursap's SAP Tips: Clearing inconsistencies in MD04

Jun 24,2022 | Written by Jon Simmonds

Eursap's SAP Tips: Clearing inconsistencies in MD04.

Sometimes MD04 can be confusing. For example, you have a sales document which has a requirement, which correctly shows in MD04. You then reject the sales document item, but the requirement still shows in MD04. This is an inconsistency and can be caused by many issues, including object locking and custom code issues.

This is all very well, but what if you want to clear the inconsistency from MD04? No problem! There are two ways of doing this: the ECC6 way and the SAP S/4HANA way.

ECC6

SAP provides report SDRQCR21 to be able to do this. ONE WORD OF CAUTION THOUGH! This report deletes and recreates all the requirements data. Therefore it should be run out of hours when there is no activity which may affect the document, such as MRP runs, delivery due list runs, etc.

The detailed running of the report can be found in SAP note 25444.

SAP S/4HANA

Using SDRQCR21 will provide this error message in SAP S/4HANA:

This means you can still continue, but there is a replacement report available with better performance and specifically tailored to the data structure available in SAP S/4HANA. This report is ATP_VBBE_CONSISTENCY.