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May 06, 2008 at 11:05 AM

Inability to assign freight vendor at header condition level

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Hello all

We are working on ECC 5.0 but will shortly be moving to ECC 6.0.

We have a scenario where raw materials are purchased from one vendor and delivered by a freight carrier (for which we are liable). To satisfy a Finance requirement to capture freight costs as part of RM valuation, we have created new freight conditions and set them as Header conditions and Group conditions - this allows the freight costs to be set at header level (ie per delivery) and then distributed across several PO items. Provided the freight carrier is defined against the PO freight condition, the freight invoice can then be matched with reference to the original RM PO.

However, we then wish to assign the freight carrier vendor to the freight condition and it appears this is only possible at the item level, which is time-consuming and inefficient if there are a high number of different materials/items on the PO.

I have checked the forums, SAP Notes, Google and even asked SAP - SAP said that it was standard functionality that freight carriers could only be assigned at item level (even though the conditions have been assigned at the header level).

Does anybody know a way of assigning the freight carrier vendor at PO header condition level?

Thanks

Oliver