Elena in customer operations asks why a five-module shipment to Beacon Assembly Systems has no invoice. The commercial team has now approved billing at 310 USD per module. Build the order and shipment, clear the specific order hold, bill it, and provide a customer open-item export with a checked total.
A billing block protects a commercial decision without making the order disappear. The warehouse can still prepare a shipment under the scenario's approved process, while the billing step waits for review. You need to distinguish the physical completion from the financial completion when a colleague asks why a delivered order has no invoice.
Carry the order through delivery creation, picking and goods issue. Then apply the explicit commercial approval, bill the delivery and export the resulting open customer item. The final answer reconciles that receivable with the selling price. It must not use the lower inventory valuation price. Your deliverable is a complete document flow plus a receivables view that supports the billed amount.