Hi Liazed,
I just marked MARD deletion flag and run MM71 with variant specified for this single mtrl. As you can see in below log only MARD was taken into account. I can't run further as the system I used has no archive customizing done for this.
Production Mode: Statistics on Written Data Objects
Archive File Key 001263-001MM_MATNR
Number of Written Data Objects 1
Size of Archive File in MB 0,040
Proportion of Header Data in % 99,1
Type No. Description
MARD 1 Storage Location Data for Material
PRE01 1 Help structure for mass access to material
Summary
Archiving Session Number 001263
Number of Written Data Objects 1
Size of Archiving Session in MB 0,040
Proportion of Header Data in % 99,1
Type No. Description
MARD 1 Storage Location Data for Material
PRE01 1 Help structure for mass access to material
Log (Summary) for MM_MATNR
Message (Example) Obj. Disp. Object (Example)
MARD: material master record was archived 1 TEST_DEL 4761 WRO1
But the preparation log seem to be fine.
So maybe you can share your logs from MM71 job logs for single mtrl ??
BR,
Tomek