Shipment cost based on Value

[Former Member]

I need your valuable suggestion on how to create the Value based shipment cost.

Our Process:

Create POS - Create Inbound delivery - Create Shipment - Create Shipment cost - Post Inbound Delivery.

So while posting the inbound delivery, the freight cost will post against the material. The invoice will be paid for the Vendor for the quantity purchased and freight charge will be paid for the freight Vendor(s).

We are adding the Vendor in the Shipment and adding the cost against the Vendor in the Shipment Cost.

Everything is working fine, but the shipment cost posting against the material was happening based on the delivery weight / quantity.

The reason for this asking the question is - we are receiving high value items and low value items with the same weight.

Question 1: Is it possible to have the shipment cost being split, calculated and posted against the material based on the PO Item received Value or PO Price

Quesion 2: Is it possible to post the shipment cost at a later date? Currently, the shipment cost posts when the inbound delivery is received (I know the material value will be posted when there is stock changes or price changes). But our issue is the invoice for the shipment cost will be received after a couple of days from the goods receipt. Right now we are entering couple of costs through assumption, then while postig the invoice, we adjust that value.

Note: I cannot enter the condition directly in the PO, as the same PO item will be partially received by multiple inbound deliveries

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

nice idea to charge the bigger part of the freight costs to high value item, but far away from reality, and it works only if you always get hgh and low value item together in one shipment.

If you get the shipments individually, then it would not matter if the the freight is apporrtioned by weight or value, as 100% of the freight costs are going to item anyway.

I did not say that it is impossible; a condition is just a description and some settings, so SAP cannot really know if it is a freight condition or a rebate, hence it should certainly be possible

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your answer Jurgen.

So is it possible to do Freight Cost based on item Value or do we have to do some custom coding to post the freight cost based on item value.

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

I had the purchase order freight conditions in mind, here I am very sure that it can be customized to be value based.

With shipments and shipment cost calculation I have some doubts, as you usually do not have any access to material values there.

[ajitkumar]

it is possible to process shipment cost at a later date. Imagine the case where you are sending material as delivered supply, In that scenario we process the shipment cost only after confirmation from the customer that the material is received.

[Former Member]

Thanks Ajit. Can you please tell me how i can do it. (The config or TX)

[ajitkumar]

create inbound delivery in vl31n, create shipment doc in vt01n, do gr on inbound del, process the shipment cost for the shipment doc in vi01.

you may have to configure the transportation module

[Former Member]

Hi MohanaSelvan Jayaraj,

I am currently facing the same requirement. Can you please explain how you solved the following :

Question 1: Is it possible to have the shipment cost being split, calculated and posted against the material based on the PO Item received Value or PO Price

Thank you very much in advance,

JN

[Former Member]

Freight carriers charges weight on the basis of Weight / volume of the items.SAP shipment works on the same principle.

Cost of transporting ton of Potataoes is same as transporting 10 ton of aluminium between two known destinations.

Hence it is illogical to distributes cost on the basis of item value. However if still you want to distribute the same on value basis then maintain freight condition(%) in PO as per your prefined logic of distribution of freight cost.

It is well known fact that cost of freight % is always higher in Low value items & iis low in case of High value items.

Regards,

Sanjay Kohli