Would love to see an additional option for an engineering or quality hold "H" or freeze that would not allow any activity without being changed back to active. I don't want to clear history or make the item obsolete. The current "E" engineering status, puts an alert on the screen but allows everybody to disregard and continue as usual. Need more control. If this is possible, it may make sense to provide two different flags with different messages depending whether it is engineering or quality that needs to be contacted to clear the part for future processing or shipment.

I thought that after the issue is resolved, the item status would be changed to "Y" again for normal activity, but until it is resolved, no new orders could be processed using that item code.

I think that H for hold would be the thing. It should act like O and not allow transactions, but should skip the checks against stock, physical inventory, etc. As to who has it on hold, that could be a note attached to the part number.

Thanks!!