Planned delivery costs are agreed upon with the vendor, a carrier or a customs office before the purchase order is created. You enter them in the purchase order.

Planned delivery costs can be differentiated as follows:

• Origin of costs

When you enter the purchase order, you enter the planned delivery costs at item level.

At the time of invoice receipt, the system lists all planned delivery costs corresponding to the allocation in the item list. You can have the system list planned delivery costs by vendor, purchasing documents or bills of lading.

Planned delivery costs are not restricted to a particular creditor. When you plan the delivery costs in a purchase order, you can enter a vendor, a freight supplier for example, for the delivery costs. In Invoice Verification, however, you can post the delivery costs to another invoicing party.

Planned delivery costs are automatically posted to clearing accounts at goods receipt. Each origin type has its own clearing account. When you post the invoice for these delivery costs, the corresponding clearing accounts are cleared.

1. On the initial screen of Logistics Invoice Verification, select the field Planned delivery costs.

2. Limit the allocation for the planned delivery costs to:

4. On the item list, check whether the selected items match those in the invoice. Change the selections if necessary.

5. Then compare the quantities and amounts in the delivery costs items with those in the invoice.

6. Post the invoice.