Determining Pricing Date and Settlement Date
Use
The shipment document contains pricing date fields and settlement date fields at header level and at item level.
Pricing date
The pricing date is the date defined by date-dependent pricing elements such as conditions and the foreign currency rate.
Settlement date
The settlement date is the date on which the shipment cost item is entered in financial accounting or cost accounting. It is also the date entered in tax determination.
Prerequisites
To activate automatic determination of the pricing date or the settlement date, you must make the following settings in Customizing:
When you define the date rule, you specify a sequence of shipping deadlines (for example, end of transportation planning or planned start of loading) which are used to determine the pricing date or the settlement date. The sequence of the deadlines reflects their priority for access. If there is no value for the first deadline, then the next deadline is checked, etc.
You make these settings in Customizing: Logistics Execution
In the definition of shipment cost item categories, you can assign a date rule to the pricing date and one to the settlement date.
You make these settings in Customizing: Logistics Execution
Features
When calculating a shipment cost item, the system automatically determines the pricing date and the settlement date based on the settings in Customizing. You can overwrite this automatically determined date. When you create a shipment cost document manually, you can specify pricing date and settlement date manually. This date will be valid for all items and overrides the date determined. You can also overwrite this date at item level.
The following graphic illustrates automatic-date determination for the pricing date and settlement date.
