Deleting Blocking Reasons (SAP Library - Logistics Invoice Verification (MM-IV-LIV))

Deleting Blocking Reasons

Use

You can delete individual blocking reasons while processing a blocked invoice item. This is 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 If a particular blocking reason is no longer valid, you can remove it, without this affecting the other blocking reasons.
In your company, different employees may be responsible for processing different blocking reasons. Your system administrator can assign different authorizations for deleting individual blocking reasons. Therefore, each employee can delete the blocking reasons for which he or she has authorization.

If you have selected the field Move cash discount date, the agreed cash discount period is retained.

Procedure

Choose Logistics Invoice Verification ® Further Processing Release Invoices.

The selection screen for releasing invoices appears.

Enter data as required. In the Processing screen area, select the field Release manually.

In the Blocking procedure screen area, select a procedure.

Caution

If you manually set a payment block in the document header when entering the invoice and one of the invoice items contains blocking reasons, this invoice is not displayed in the blocking procedure Manual payment block, instead it is displayed in the blocking procedure Blocked due to variances.

Choose

Execute.

The system issues a list of blocked invoices that meet the criteria entered.

Place the cursor on the blocking reasons that you want to delete.
Choose Delete blocking reasons.

The system highlights the deleted blocking reason in color.

Check your entries.
Choose Save changes.

The blocking reasons selected are only deleted when you save them.

Result

If there are other blocking reasons in this item or other items in the invoice, you receive a message

indicating that the selected blocking reason was deleted.

When you delete the blocking reason for an invoice, the system automatically releases the invoice as long as the document header does not contain a manual payment block. The following message appears:

nn invoice(s) released

If the invoice contains a manual payment block in the document header, the system outputs the message:

nn invoices released, n still contain a manual block.

To release invoices containing manual blocks, select the relevant invoices using Manual Payment Block and Release Manually. Release the relevant invoices manually.