When a product is no longer used at your company and will not be superseded by any new revisions, consider the following operations:
Archiving a Product: Retain a record of the product, but remove it from the active product list.
Un-Archiving a Product: Bring an archived product back into active use.
Configuring Automatic Archiving: Select which data is automatically copied from an outdated product to its replacement.
Deleting a Product: Delete the product entirely from your system.