The term "carve out", in the context of SAP data, refers to the scenario where mass deletion of data is required, usually based on company codes that will no longer be used in the system. This usually occurs when a company sells a part of its business to another company and there is a contractual commitment to delete the data of the companies that were sold.
Addressing this challenge implies being very clear about the scope of such contractual commitment and the potential legal and technical risks that need to be minimized.
From a technical resolution perspective, the best way forward is to leverage the concept of data archiving as a tool for executing this selective deletion. Archiving objects have within them the design of the relationships between the tables that compose them. The idea is to use these objects for the exclusive purpose of deletion.
This is not a typical archiving project, since the carve out will involve deleting the transactional data whose processes have ended normally and also the "open items". In other words, it will be necessary to delete transactional data from processes that were left open. It will be necessary to implement a form of "forced archiving" from the standard archiving objects.
For this, it is necessary to have tools created to meet this need, which, like a precision scalpel, allow the elimination of this data in a careful way, preserving the consistency and integrity of the data model.
We have a lot of good experience in solving these challenges. If this is your case, let's talk. We can help you evaluate your scenario and propose a simple, concrete and quickly implementable solution.