See, http://bbs.erp100.com/thread-273173-1-1.html
Material status differs from item status. Item status is used for unified control of item's status attributes, these status attributes include Stockable, transactable, purchasable, customer orders Enabled, internal orders enabled a total of 8. In a material from the market survey to form a concept, to prototype design, to research and development, and then to the product life cycle of mass production will experience state, different state control whether this material can be stored, be traded, be purchased, be sold, be internal sales and so on. The material status control controls the transactions that can be transacted and cannot be transacted by the item with some kind of material status, and whether it is included in the net value calculation, whether it is included in the ATP calculation, and whether it can be retained. For example, if all items in a sub-library are not retained, then you can establish a material status that is set to the state of the sub-Library so that all items in the sub-Library are not retained. Material status has 5 control levels, sub-libraries, shelves, batches, serial numbers, and inventory on hand.
In the pharmaceutical industry, a lot of drugs are often relatively large, and requirements for storage in refrigerated conditions as soon as possible, which often need to carry out warehousing operations, and then a sample inspection, in this batch of drugs without inspection, is not able to sell out of the library. At this point, we can use the material status control, in the batch layer control, when the batch of drugs to be generated when the default state of the batch is to be checked, the item to be checked is not allowed to carry out staging transfer, so the sales order pick-up is not successful when the library issued. This controls the sale of the drug, which is not qualified for the quality of the goods.
The following is a setup with a test document:
Inv-20140524-v1.0-material status settings and testing. pdf
11th Material Status Setup and testing, a case in the pharmaceutical industry