Data flow from Lawson to Meditech ORM

I added some new items about a week ago and made some vendor\product number changes to some others.

The cost information for the new items did not flow over to our Meditech system.

The new price for the items that were changed was not available when orders were being placed.

After a little reading, I realized I had to Release the Vendor agreement (PO25.6) for the items that were changed.

Is the Release action the same thing that would need to be done in order for cost information to flow via an HL7 interface to a clinical system?

I realize now that the Release action should be done for every new and/or changed item.