The estimated freight costs set to Actual Cost Final for a load or a freight order cluster by the user, or the actual amount invoiced by a carrier to the shipping office to carry out the transportation of particular goods.

Extra costs charged by the invoice-from business partner which create a difference between the invoice amount and the order amount or the goods received amount. For example, storage costs, freight costs, and insurance costs.

Dividing the fixed landed cost amount of the header into partial amounts on the related lines.

Commands are distributed across the Views, References, and Actions menus, or displayed as buttons. In previous LN and Web UI releases, these commands are located in the Specific menu.

A combination of data elements, such as buy-from business partner, buyer, planner, effective date, expiry date, and amount, based on which LN approves purchase orders. The approval rules, on their turn, are based on acceptance rules or exception rules.

An unfilled customer order, or partial delivery at a later date. A demand for an item whose inventory is insufficient to satisfy demand.

Indicates the stage at which the order process must be blocked or a signaling message must be displayed, with the associated reason.

A part of a business model that is built from a selection of business functions that are initially created in the repository.

A freight rate book where you can maintain freight agreements with carriers.

A change document that includes a proposal for the adjustment of an actual document. The change request is copied from and linked to the actual document. Changes are applied to the actual document after the change request is approved and processed.

To group a number of purchase orders that originate from different sources, into a single purchase order. Commingling reduces the number of purchase orders and enables you to obtain the best available prices and discounts.

The estimated costs of transportation for a shipment, load, or freight order cluster. LN calculates the estimated freight costs during load building or freight order clustering. The estimated freight cost is are calculated with the rate retrieved from Pricing, the travelling distance derived from the ship-from and ship-to addresses, and the total quantities of the goods to be transported. The estimated costs can also be manually entered by the user.

A requirement that is handled as an actual order and that can be shipped.

A commission to transport a particular number of goods. A freight order includes an order header and one or more order lines.

A freight order header includes some general information, such as the delivery date and the name and address of the customer who is to receive the goods listed on the freight order.

A freight order line includes an item to be transported and some details about the item, such as the quantity and the dimensions.

A freight order cluster is a group of freight order lines with matching properties, such as shipping offices, planning groups, overlapping time windows, transport means groups, and so on, that is subcontracted to a carrier. The carrier will plan and carry out the transportation of the goods listed on the freight order lines according to the subcontracting order.

A requirement that must be shipped as soon as possible.

The difference between the valuation amount that is recorded after the receipt of goods and the updated value for that particular receipt.

For example, an inventory variance can be created:

• If the receipt price is changed after the receipt is confirmed.
• If the invoice price differs from the receipt price.
• If a production order is closed and the actual cost differs from the estimated cost.

The total of all costs that are associated with the procurement of an item until delivery and receipt in a warehouse. Landed costs typically include freight costs, insurance costs, customs duties, and handling costs.

In LN, landed costs can be part of multiple landed costs sets.

Attribute that allows users to link a logistic transaction to a specific landed costs set, overruling the landed costs settings of that transaction. If required, users can specify a landed costs classification and use this classification on the transaction.

A set of conditions used to determine a logistic transaction's landed costs. Each scenario is linked to a landed costs set.

One or more landed cost lines that are defaulted as a group on the order.

The landed costs set includes search attributes that link a set of landed cost lines to a transaction.

A user-defined category of landed costs, for example, "Freight", "Handling", "Insurance."

A categorization of the price based on the phase of the price negotiation process. Using price stages, companies can negotiate the price while continuing the order process with restrictions. The order processing restrictions that apply to the price stage are specified in the linked blocking definition.

Example

Two types of pull schedules exist:

• Pull forecast schedules

  A list of time-phased planned requirements, generated by Enterprise Planning, that are sent to the supplier. Pull forecast schedules are only used for forecasting purposes. To actually order the items, a pull call-off schedule must be generated.

• Pull call-off schedules

  A list of time-phased specific requirements of purchased items, triggered from Assembly Control, or Warehousing (KANBAN, Time-phased order point).

An agreement that indicates which items are delivered by a buy-from business partner according to certain terms and conditions.

A purchase order contains:

• A header with general order data, buy-from business partner data, payment terms, and delivery terms
• One or more order lines with more detailed information about the actual items to be delivered

A timetable of planned supply of materials. Purchase schedules support long-term purchasing with frequent deliveries and are usually backed by a purchase contract. All requirements for the same item, buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner, purchase office, and warehouse are stored in one schedule.

A list of time-phased requirements, generated by a central planning system, such as Enterprise Planning or Project, that are sent to the supplier. Push schedules contain both a forecast for the longer term and actual orders for the short term.

A push schedule can use one of the following release types:

• Material Release: only material releases are sent. Shipping is performed based on the Firm and Immediate requirements in the material release.
• Shipping Schedule: both material releases and shipping schedules are sent. Shipping is carried out based on the Firm and Immediate requirements in the shipping schedule. The material release only sends forecasting data.
• Shipping Schedule Only: only shipping schedules are sent. Shipping is carried out based on the Firm and Immediate requirements in the shipping schedule. No forecasting data is sent to the supplier.

A purchasing document that is used as a request to bidders to submit their terms, such as price, discount, delivery time, and payment terms for delivering a (quantity of a) product.

You can send the RFQ to several bidders. A bidder can submit an RFQ response for the specified items.

You can record the responses, negotiate, and compare the prices and discounts that are offered by different bidders.

An accepted response can be copied to a contract, an order, or a price book.

Three requirement types exist that represent a requirement in time, used for scheduling.

The available requirement types are:

• Immediate
• Firm
• Planned

For non-referenced schedules, requirement types are linked to segments.

For pull forecast schedules, the requirement type is always Planned or Immediate. For pull call-off schedules, the requirement type is always Firm.

A response to a request for quotation line, which includes a bidder's bid for the RFQ line. A bid offers goods or services for a certain price and terms of sale and can be considered as an offer to sell.

A request to a bidder (buy-from business partner) to provide you with an offer for goods and services.

Includes the negotiations between a negotiator and a bidder regarding a response line. It contains the responses (bids) of a bidder and the counter proposals of a buyer to the bids.

A response to a request for quotation, which includes one or more response lines with bids. A bid offers goods or services for a certain price and terms of sale and can be considered as an offer to sell.

Copying the landed costs of the header to the related lines.

A special form of user assistance that automates a task by setting the parameter values within a business model and which directs the software to meet the specific requirements of an organization.