Freeze book inventory

Hi All,
During the cycle count, physical inventory document is generated with indicator Freeze book inventory balance is set.
That means the inventory will be freeze in the background. That has no impact to production or some other departments. They could work normally during the inventory freeze. Please confirm.
When will be the system freeze inventory? is it after generating the document?
Is it applied to every cycle count?
Thanks

When will be the system freeze inventory
- If you check freeze inventory in MICN, system freezes the book inventory for the physical inventory process. i.e system considers the book stock before the creation of physical inventory document. for ex. you are creating the physical inventory doc. for a material and the stock at that time is 100 EA. Now system freezed the book for physical inventory process. you can still receive the stock but it will not be considered as part of the physical inventory process. issue comes here.. you freeze the book and recevieved another 50 qty before counting. As per physical inventory, book quantity is 100 and when person counts real book quantity is 150 EA.. so will you post this 50 as difference? so its not advisable to freeze if your physical inventory process takes long time. But if you block indicatory you can do transaction with that material..
is it after generating the document?
- Freeze starts from the moment physical inventory document created and it's unfreezed after the posting.
Is it applied to every cycle count?
- it depends how you check freeze icon in MICN.. you can uncheck it if you dont want but understand the implications.

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