Status codes and the document life cycle
The status codes are attached to the documents throughout the lifecycle, and continuously show the current status of the document. Most applications used as a work list for the production planner, the purchaser or the shipping operator, filter documents and transactions based on the status codes.
For example, a Sales Order item is ready for shipping when it reaches status 8. The application where the shipping operator gets the overview of all orders ready for processing shipment shows all customer order items in status 8.
See the illustration below for the various status codes used in RamBase.
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