Block items or variants from production output
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
Business value
Business Central gives you full control over the materials you use in production. You can prevent specific items and item variants from being used as production output. For example, blocking items can be useful if you want to restrict replenishment because you've started to produce another model, but want to be able to sell the remaining stock.
Feature details
You can block an item or an item variant from being used for production output. To block an item or variant from production, on the Item Card, Item Variants, and Item Variant Card pages, turn on the Production Blocked toggle. You can also set this field on the Item Template page, so Business Central copies your setting to new items created from the template.
When an item or an item variant is production-blocked, it isn't available for selection on the following pages:
- Production order header (all statuses)
- Production order lines
Additionally, if a production order includes blocked items or item variants, you can't use the following actions:
- Post output in output journal or production journal
- Refresh production order
- Replan production order
- Calculate subcontracts in subcontracting worksheet should skip those items.
Note
You can still have lines in the requisition and planning worksheet, but you won't be able to carry out the action and create the production order. If you production-block an item, consider changing the replenishment method to to exclude the item from planning.
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