We have certain configurable materials which need an engineering review of the product application application before we allow a sales order to be fulfilled and processed into a production order. In the past, we had this working, or at least thought we had it working, by having a characteristic which I will call ENG_APPR with values of "Approved" and "Not Approved". When not approved, the material would stay yellow in the configuration and then you would have to lock it to go red due to a characteristic restriction we created while it awaited a review by somebody that could change that characteristic to Approved and make it green in the configuration on a sales order. We did this by going into the class for this material and assign the "E" Org. Area against this ENG_APPR characteristic which would mean that only those users with the E profile assigned to their account would be able to change this characteristic value in the material configuration on the sales order line item, right? For some reason, this seems to not be working properly anymore and while our team is investigating the issue, I would like to know what other options there are out there that I could look at for achieving this behavior within the standard SAP configuration?
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