You need to maintain the following authorizations for the buyers who release invoice items blocked due to price:

• Authorization to display (activity 03) and change (activity 02) purchase orders

• Authorization to display invoices

• Authorization to delete (change the invoice) the blocking reason Price (activity 02)

Several other specific customizing steps are necessary for this workflow template in addition to the general customizing that is necessary to make sure that the workflow system functions properly.

Various buyers can check and release invoice items that are blocked due to price. You need to identify them all in Customizing for SAP Business Workflow. These buyers can be assigned to various organizational units. Organizational units are a means of subdividing an enterprise according to various business criteria, such as purchasing groups.

For each purchasing group, you define a position and link it to the entries in table T024. You define the users for each position.

Here you list all organizational management objects that are generally allowed to release invoices blocked for price reasons (such as purchasing groups) and classify the general tasks.

The event IncomingInvoice.blockedPrice (Invoice item blocked due to price variance) for object type BUS2081 (Incoming invoice) is an event that triggers workflow template WS 20000397 and is entered in the event linkage table as such as the standard event.

This coupling between the event and the workflow template to be started is deactivated in the standard system. If you want to use the workflow template, you activate the linkage between the triggering event and the workflow template as receiver of the event in Customizing for Logistics Invoice Verification. (Logistics Invoice Verification ® Invoice Block ® Activate Workflow Template)