Prevent deletion of ended production orders

Question from Colby Gallagher (Yammer Sept 21 2020): "Deleting ended production orders is standard clean up activity, there's even a periodic job for it. The financial impacts of an ended production order can't be changed, you have posted route transactions and inventory transactions for all things that happened. Why do you need to prevent deletion of the production order?" FH: Posted transactions are only part of the story. To have a clear traceability of the planned vs. as-built production BOM, routing planned vs. spent hours etc, it is important to keep the production order in the system. I never had a customer who wanted to clean up their production orders. Even if the Ended production order should be deleted, this clean-up is not part of the normal daily process. There is a risk that a user who has the permission to delete production orders in status Created, erroneously deletes an Ended production order. If we consider the similar case for Sales orders, it is possible to get a warning or a block when you touch or try delete an Invoiced sales order. (AR parameters > Updates > Safety level of invoiced orders), A similar parameter for production orders would mitigate this risk.

Would it be enough to have a separate delete function for this, with own rights, so the deletion does not happen accidentally? For trace-ability and documentation, but also as basis of PowerBI information, ended production orders should only be deleted in the context of archiving / periodic clean up of historical transactions. For example you still may need to convert the Production BOM to a service BOM / Asset BOM (even if inventrans would still be visible).

I agree with Frans, however:

I would suggest adding a field to Manufacturing setup "Prevent Finished Production Order Deletion".

If the Boolean = True then when the user tried to delete a finished production order present a message "Finished Production Orders Cannot be Deleted"

I totally agree on this. This happened for one of my client. We need to have a parameter that will prevent from deleting production orders in the ended status which could be kept for auditng and tracibility.

Could you please provide an update on the status of the following idea?

We recently discovered that it is possible to delete production orders that are in the "Ended" status. Unfortunately, this functionality has been accidentally used by some users.

For auditing purposes, it is essential that all production orders remain in the system. To prevent accidental deletions, we believe introducing a parameter to disallow the deletion of production orders in the "Ended" status would be a suitable solution.