Allocating Landed Costs

The Allocate Landed Costs activity distributes landed costs across all purchase order or transfer order lines according to the entries on the Purchase Order Landed Costs, Goods Receiving Notes Landed Costs, or Transfer Order Landed Costs forms.

Before You Start

Set up your estimated landed costs on the Purchase Order Landed Costs, Goods Receiving Notes Landed Costs, or Transfer Order Landed Costs form. Then add line items to the purchase order or transfer order.

Allocating the Costs

On the Purchase Orders, Goods Receiving Notes, or Transfer Orders form (or their associated Landed Costs forms), select Actions > Allocate Landed Costs. There is no form for this activity; the system works behind the scenes to allocate the freight, brokerage, duty, insurance, and local freight you set up on the Landed Costs form across all line items of the purchase order or transfer order.

You can see the results by viewing the PO or TO line item's Cost tab.

If the activity is selected from the Purchase Orders or Goods Receiving Notes form (or their associated Landed Costs forms), the landed costs are distributed across all PO lines associated with the PO or every GRN line associated with the GRN header. If the activity is selected from the Transfer Orders form (or its Landed Costs form), the landed costs are distributed across all TO lines associated with the TO header.

Note: The Allocate Landed Costs activity only allocates estimated costs to PO lines with a status of Planned or Ordered, or to TO lines with a status of Ordered. If the PO contains lines that are Filled or Complete, and Allocate Landed Costs is run, the Filled or Complete lines will not be included in the allocation.

After Receipt

After receipt, the remaining landed cost activities take place in Accounts Payable.

See Generating Landed Cost Vouchers.