Priority between Plant Specific and X-Plant Material Statuses

[fidy]

Hi,

I am wondering which is prioritized, Plant Specific Material Status or X-Plant Material Status.

The official help below suggests that the X-Plant Level will be chosen, however, the logic behind is unclear. Does the X-Plant is chosen because:

1. Client level setting is always prioritized to the plant-specific level
2. blocking in Inventory Management covers a larger area than blocking for Purchasing, i.e. more strict status?

https://help.sap.com/viewer/cb7b96d71e9c486e897c8fb57d5669a8/6.18.06/en-US/06e9408c-77da-492d-a419-7...

In the QA below, the questioner received the answer to use Plant Specific Material Status solely to meet his requirement.

https://answers.sap.com/questions/4735255/plant-specific-and-x-plant-material-status.html

[pataselano · Accepted solution]

You can try yourself how the material status logic works.

Example, you set X-Plant Material Status as blocked for Purchasing. Then, you can't open PO for all plant.

If X-Plant Material Status as not blocked for Purchasing and blocked only for specific plant then you can't open PO for specific plant only, but you still can open PO for other plant which not blocked for Purchasing.

[fidy · Accepted solution]

Does this mean that the cross-plant setting always takes precedence? How about the following cases? (I can't test this in a real environment at the moment) X-Plant: BLOCK / Plant-Specific: ALLOWED

In the forum above, the questioner just received the answer "do not use x-plant, just use plant-specific." I am quite wondering what will happen if I use both in the material master.

[pataselano · Accepted solution]

fidy,

As my explanation before, you can't open PO for all plants if X-Plant: BLOCK.