The Trading Expense function in SAP Global Trade enables you to handle various kinds of costs and commissions incurred by a trading business. There are various types of expenses in the trading environment, all of which are realized at different times and posted to different accounts, and these are often not synchronized with the main flow of a trading contract.

Trading companies must control trading-related expenses, such as freight, loading charges, storage costs, insurance, customs duty and commission efficiently. It is important to accurately assess costs, including purchasing costs and all trading charges associated with the trading contract.

The above figure describes the relationship between the trading contract process and the trading expense process.

The new process flow gives you more flexibility in maintaining expenses data. In trading contract processing, you can maintain planned expenses, which are treated as pricing conditions in the contract pricing schema. You can reference them when you post expenses in other processes. When logistics documents are being processed you can post expenses to a specific account. The vendor billing document is used for posting expenses. It has an additional function that enables you to post expenses to both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

Since planned expenses are included in contract pricing, you must ensure that the contract pricing schema is customized properly. If you process trading contracts using the Trading Execution Workbench (TEW), you can also use it to process expenses. For more information see: