Delivery costs can be divided into:

Planned delivery costs

Unplanned delivery costs

Planned delivery costs are entered at item level in the purchase order.

Unplanned costs are entered in the invoice.

Planned delivery costs can be divided into:

Freight costs

Customs duty

Delivery costs can be invoiced in one of three ways:

Fixed amount, independent of scope of supply

Quantity-dependent amount

Percentage of value of goods to be delivered

For planned delivery costs, postings are made to a clearing account at goods receipt. There are separate accounts for costs of different origins.

These postings are cleared when the invoice is posted.

If the delivery costs in the invoice differ from the planned delivery costs, the differences are posted as for normal price and quantity variances.

Unplanned delivery costs are entered when you enter the invoice.

In conventional Invoice Verification, the system automatically apportions unplanned delivery costs referencing a purchase order among the individual items and posts the costs to the corresponding stock accounts or cost accounts.

If the invoice does not refer to a purchase order, you must create the offsetting entry manually.

For Logistics Invoice Verification, you can configure the system in Customizing for Invoice Verification to automatically apportion unplanned delivery costs among the individual items and post the costs to the corresponding stock accounts or cost accounts. Alternatively you can configure it to post unplanned delivery costs to a separate G/L account.

In Logistics Invoice Verification, you cannot enter unplanned delivery costs without reference to a purchase order.

The system apportions unplanned delivery costs to the items in proportion to the total value invoiced so far and the values in the current invoice.

In conventional Invoice Verification, the system adds the respective share of the unplanned delivery costs to the item amount, thus creating a price variance. However, no price check is carried out at this point.

In Logistics Invoice Verification, you can configure the system to:

Add the delivery costs share to the item amount

Create a separate posting line for the delivery costs share for each item

With unplanned delivery costs, the costs are not split up according to their origin.

If unplanned costs are apportioned among the purchase order items, the offsetting entry is made to the respective stock account or cost account for the individual items.

For Logistics Invoice Verification, you can configure the system in Customizing to apportion the unplanned delivery costs among the items or automatically post them to a separate G/L account.

If the delivery costs do not refer to a purchase order, you create the offsetting entry manually in conventional Invoice Verification.

If the delivery costs refer to a material, the material can be debited directly.

If the delivery costs do not refer to a material or a purchase order, you must manually post the amount to a special G/L account set up for this purpose.

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