PO Release Strategy - Only for non material based

Experts,
I have a requirement to implement a release strategy for a single plant for POs for NON material based purchases ( only for using account assignments, cost centers etc).
The release strategy I configured is working only for the specific plant I want... However, it works whether its a material based PO or a non material based PO.
How do i get the strategy to work for only the service based purchases, and not the material ones?

Thanks for the replies but I'm not sure if they are applicable...
I did create a characterstic for item categories and added the one's I wanted to have... I did NOT include a blank because i thought that would make the difference between the material based PO and non PO. When we I create Po with material (even with no account assignment) it still goes through release.
Any reason why that is?
I dont believe the material group solution will not work either because we require material group for material and non material based POs..
Side note - when i try to use CEKKO with KTTNP, i get a "KTTNP does not exist error." So i used EKPO - KTTNP... hopefully thats ok, but please let me know if its not.
Edited by: farmerj3 on Jan 30, 2012 3:36 PM
Edited by: farmerj3 on Jan 30, 2012 3:39 PM
Edited by: farmerj3 on Jan 30, 2012 3:48 PM

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