Shipment Cost Processing
Purpose
This component contains the functions for calculating and settling shipment costs in transportation. The following items describe how the shipment costs are determined in the shipment, how they are transmitted to accounting, and how they are settled with the service provider. The system also shows you how to obtain information regarding the shipment costs to be expected in the order.
Features
Calculation of shipment costs is carried out using the condition technique in SAP pricing. For further information on pricing, see
Conditions and Pricing. As well as general pricing functionality, the following additional functions are available for shipment costs calculation:The system determines the pricing procedure to be used to calculate shipment costs. Determination is carried out by transportation planning point, service agent, shipment cost item, and shipping type.
The origin of the data upon which a condition type is based during shipment costing determines the calculation basis. The following possibilities exist:
The following options are available for representing geographical considerations in transportation:
In the shipment stage and/or the shipment header, you can either enter the distance manually or it can be automatically copied from the route stage. If you want the system to determine distance automatically, you can also use a customer enhancement (enhancement V56DISTZ).
You can use some of the data from the address data in the shipment (e.g. country, postal code, transportation zone) for condition determination. This data is separated according to departure and destination locations. The system can also automatically determine a tariff zone. A tariff zone is the combination of a postal code area of a country from the point of view of shipment costs calculation.
The system can automatically determine the pricing date and/or the settlement date. You can also define a date rule in Customizing in which a sequence of shipment deadlines is defined to be used as date proposals. When defining the item categories, you can then assign a date rule for the pricing date and the settlement date.
You can combine the conditions of a pricing procedure into groups. The system evaluates these conditions and compares the values of the groups. You can configure the system so that the most favorable group is always selected.
When determining shipment costs, you can also have the system determine the corresponding tax. Certain rules regarding the tax country of departure and destination apply to this calculation. The system takes into account whether the shipment cost items refer to the shipment header or to a shipment stage and whether the stage includes a load transfer or border crossing point.
Constraints
The component includes the following functionality constraints:
See also:
Shipment Cost Document Shipment Costing Shipment Costing with Service Agents