It is not necessary to assign the transportation planning point to a company code for transportation planning purposes. However, company code assignment is necessary for shipment costing and settlement. Internal offsetting of costs between company codes (one company code takes care of transportation processing for all the firm’s company codes, for example) is presently not available. These must be manually entered in the financial accounting ledgers.

In order for this cross-company-code manual processing to be possible in financial accounting, cost distribution for shipment costs must occur on the shipment cost item level rather than delivery level or delivery item level, since in the latter two cases, the delivery’s company code would be adapted to the transportation planning point’s company code.

• The first shipment is created by the transportation planning point in Japan and ends at the airport in Japan. Cost distribution occurs on the shipment cost item level.
• The second and third shipment are created by the transportation planning point in Houston. In both cases, cost distribution occurs on the shipment cost item level.