block material for sales order

For the purpose to block material for sales order,we can use material status in material master record.
There is also some scenarios that we should block materials sales for specific customers.We can use material exculision settings to achieve this.The google keyword is Material Listing and Exclusion.
The settings are based on condition technique.
The SPRO path is spro->sales and distribution0->basic functions->List/Exclusion.