Your customer wants to prevent customer shipments out of a specific subventory. They are setting up a material status to control this. Which transaction do they need to disallow?

Question

Options

• ASales Order Pick
• BSales Order Issue
• CShip Confirm
• DMiscellaneous Issue
• EMove Request Putaway.

• A
  11% (3)
• B
  82% (23)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Sales Order Issue is the inventory transaction that actually removes stock from the subinventory when a shipment is processed - blocking it at the material status level prevents Oracle from completing the outbound movement, so no customer shipment can be finalized from that subinventory.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Sales Order Pick): Pick moves material to a staging location but doesn't complete the shipment; blocking it would disrupt picking, not necessarily the final shipment transaction.
• C (Ship Confirm): Ship Confirm is a process step in Oracle Shipping Execution, not a standalone inventory transaction type controlled by material status - it generates a Sales Order Issue underneath.
• D (Miscellaneous Issue): This covers ad-hoc, non-order-related issues; it has no effect on sales order-driven outbound shipments.
• E (Move Request Putaway): This is an inbound/internal warehouse movement (putting stock into a location), which is the opposite direction of a shipment.

Memory tip: Match the control to the flow - customer shipments flow out, and Issue = Out. To stop material leaving a subinventory on a sales order, disallow the Sales Order Issue.

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