Symptom
A different vendor is assigned for unplanned delivery cost, and the user wants the cost to be part of the material moving average price during invoicing.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Reproducing the Issue
- Create a Purchase Order (PO) without a freight price condition.
- Perform a goods receipt.
- Process the supplier invoice.
Cause
Unplanned delivery costs are only entered at the time of invoice posting and are not part of the original purchase order or goods receipt valuation.
This behavior is standard in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
Resolution
Note that unplanned delivery costs are either distributed to invoice items or posted to a separate G/L account. They are not designed to consistently update the material moving average price.
Understand that the impact of unplanned delivery costs on stock valuation is conditional and depends on factors such as available stock. This behavior cannot be reliably controlled.
To ensure delivery costs are included in material valuation and consistently impact the moving average price, use planned delivery costs maintained in the purchase order.
Planned delivery costs are considered during goods receipt and properly capitalized into inventory.
It is possible to assign a different vendor (e.g., freight vendor) in this setup.
The requested behavior is not supported with unplanned delivery costs. The recommended approach is to use planned delivery costs in the purchase order.
Refer to the SAP Help Portal documentation: Delivery Costs (Planned and Unplanned).
See Also
Keywords
unplanned delivery cost, material moving average price, invoicing, s/4hana cloud, purchase order, goods receipt, supplier invoice, freight vendor, planned delivery cost, inventory valuation, invoice posting, g/l account, stock valuation, SAP S/4HANA Cloud , KBA , MM-FIO-IV-2CL , Fiori UI for Invoice Verification (Public Cloud) , How To
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