Symptom
You have created a Purchase Order for a Supplier, then made a Goods Receipt, and subsequently invoiced it, thus setting the status of the Purchase Order to Finished.
Now, you want to capture unplanned delivery costs, such as freight, transportation, or handling charges, from a different Supplier, and distribute this unplanned cost among the product prices.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Supplier Invoicing work center.
- Go to Invoice Entry view.
- Select show All Orders, click Go.
- Select the Purchase Order you need to invoice.
This Purchase Order Invoicing Status is Invoiced and Delivery Status is Completely Delivered.
Cause
Since you have already invoiced the Delivery Invoice Request, there are no open Invoice Request.
Resolution
You have to create a New Invoice Without Purchase Order for different Supplier to capture unplanned delivery cost. To do so, follow these steps below:
- Go to Supplier Invoicing work center.
- Navigate to New Invoice Without Purchase Order.
- Provide mandatory details like Supplier , External Document ID, Invoice Date, Receipt Date and Posting Date.
- Select View All.
- Navigate to Page Items.
- Choose Add Row under sub-view Items.
- Select type Additional Cost Debit Item.
- Provide an appropriate Description, Tax code , Quantity, Net-Price
- Navigate to Sub-view Item Details and choose Cost Distribution.
- Select Distribute among other Invoices or Credit Memos.
- Provide the Invoice ID and Item Id against the option Invoice ID / Item ID in the opened dialog box.
- Choose Distribute.
- Repeat the same procedure for all line item of Invoice against which you plan to distribute.
- Click Ok.
- Choose Calculate Total Amounts from the drop down list of Action button.
- Save and Post.
Note :
- If an Invoice Item is a Service Item, for which freight costs do not apply, to exclude this Item from Cost Distribution, select the Item and click Exclude Item from Cost Distribution. The system adjusts the distribution of the freight costs and distributes them among other Invoice Items only.
- This additional cost Item Invoice can only be seen in the document flow of Supplier Delivery. It will not be available in Purchase Order document flow nor in Delivery Supplier Invoice.
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For a material subject to moving average price control, unplanned delivery costs are posted to the stock account, provided that there is sufficient stock coverage.
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For a material subject to standard price control, unplanned delivery costs are posted to a price difference account.
- The list of Items that appear for you to distribute the cost is the list of items available under cost distribution tab of each item of Supplier Invoice.
Keywords
Unplanned Cost; Unplanned Freight cost; Unplanned Handling Cost; Unplanned Transportation Cost; Items available while distributing cost; Items available while distributing cost; Unplanned Handling Cost , KBA , AP-SIP-SIV , Supplier Invoice , How To
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