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article_id: KB0407605
article_type: Release Update
component_ids:
  - SBN-AN
component_descriptions:
  - SAP Business Network for Procurement & Supply Chain
products:
  - SAP Business Network for Procurement and SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
language: en
created: 2021-07-01
updated: 2024-02-27
source: Knowledge Base
url: https://support.ariba.com/item/view/KB0407605
connect_url: https://support.ariba.com/item/view/KB0407605?min=1
sap_for_me_url: https://me.sap.com/notes/KB0407605
---

# Enhancements to transaction data deletion and retention for SAP Business Network

## Resolution

**Applicable Solutions**

SAP Business Network

**Prerequisites**

This feature is for users with the following permission:

**Company Data Deletion Configuration** - for requesting recurring or one-time deletion of transaction data.

**Transaction Data Export for Deleted Data** - for downloading deleted transaction data files.

**Restrictions**

This feature affects transaction data only. Other types of data, such as company data and user data, aren’t affected.

This feature doesn't affect archived invoices, which are stored separately.

Once a document has been identified for deletion, it’s deleted regardless if you later opt out of data deletion.

Please carefully configure the retention period for transaction documents. Deletion of transaction documents is an irreversible process. You can’t retrieve any transaction documents after they're deleted by the system.

If you're using long-term archiving services, we strongly recommend that you specify a retention period for transaction documents that is greater than or equal to the longest archiving retention period legally required by countries/regions where you operate. If the system deletes your invoices, you can't search for those invoices in SAP Business Network. Your archived invoices, however, continue to be retained by TrustWeaver or Sovos (third-party systems that SAP Business Network uses to archive invoices) for the full legal retention period.

## Keywords

\[Change Request ID: REGAN-1654\]