Canceling Individual Blocking Reasons (SAP Library - MM Invoice Verification and Material Valuation)

Canceling Individual Blocking Reasons

When you process a blocked invoice item, it is possible to cancel individual blocking reasons. This could be useful in the following cases:

An invoice contains several blocking reasons. The time required to investigate each reason can differ. If a particular blocking reason is no longer valid, you can cancel it, without this affecting the other blocking reasons.
In your company, different employees may be responsible for processing individual blocking reasons. Your system administrator can authorize different employees to process different blocking reasons. Each employee can, therefore, cancel the blocking reasons for which he or she has authorization.

When you cancel the last blocking reason in an invoice, the system automatically releases the invoice.

To cancel a blocking reason, proceed as follows:

From the Invoice Verification screen, choose Further processing ® Release invoices. The initial screen for releasing invoices is displayed.

On the initial screen you must determine:

which invoices are to be selected
whether the baseline date for payment should be changed
the settings for the list. The blocking reason to be canceled must be displayed in the list.

When you press ENTER, the system displays the list of invoices.

Position the cursor on the blocking reason for the relevant invoice item and choose Invoice item ® Cancel blocking reason.

The system removes the blocking indicator and checks whether this is the last blocking reason for the invoice.

If there are other blocking reasons in this or other items in the invoice, you receive a message indicating that the selected blocking reason has been deleted.

If no other blocking reasons exist in this or other items in the invoice, the system releases the invoice. You receive a message indicating that the invoice has been released.