Freight Cost Accrual

Hello,
How can sap handle the freight accruals for inbound shipment on purchase orders?
And what is freight collect?how does it differ from other charges of freight for accruals?
Thanks,
Sai.

In PO you can have conditions which are defined as "Delivery costs" for this condition you can activate accruals. What this will do is to post the delivery cost to a seperate account via an accrual key assigned to the condition in the pricing procedure. The G/L account for this accrual key is maintain in OBYC just as it is for any other material movment such as BSX, WRX etc...
Then in MIRO the same is cleared.

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1.     The IB delivery document type Iu2019d like to use should be non-MRP relevant. This will eliminate the confusion that occurred when planners run MD04 and see all of the shipment notifications. Also, if the MIGO_GR transaction is used to receive the POu2019s, they will see the quantities on the PO, not on the IB delivery. This would be good for us from a business continuity stand point. However, if the IB delivery is not MRP relevant, than your GR does not accrue the freight cost defined on the SCD which short circuits the entire point of having these documents.
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Chandra,
Thank you for your reply. I'm aware of the freight condition approach you suggest & the ability to define the carrier in the freight condition.
We explored this functionality in the past. The problem/limitations we've experienced were as follows:
1. Essentially you have to know your freight cost & the carrier by PO line item at the time the PO is created. Both of these variables we typically cannot predict in our environment.
2. We have a lot of situations where the PO is considered a u201Cblanketu201D where it will remain open for a month up to a year. Knowing the entire freight cost for these PO's once they are created is impossible to predict so to support the freight conditions we would have to change our business process which would be a big effort for our organization.
3. Our suppliers ship product based on multiple PO's / PO lines, again it is impossible to predict what the per unit freight cost would be at the time a PO is generated.
These factors are what led us to the IB delivery solution which handles each one of these scenarios quite well provided you have good data when the IB delivery is created.
Regarding your second post: Thanks! This information is helpful.
Sincerely,
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Freight cost to be copied from Sales order

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I settling freight cost via third party PO .
In an SO i have setup the freight as service line items , so a Pr will be created for these items subsequently a PO will be created for each line item .
In this PO i need to capture the freight price from the sales order . in other words i want a specific price to flow from SO directly to PO( the price in SO can be manually entered or condition based ).
i tried using a calculation routine for this . I was trying to pass the SO no to the pricing structure but on adding KDAUF and KDPOS to structure KOMP the fields have no value in it.
Can you please help me in passing the sales order no and item no to the structure .
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Hi ,
I am afraid its a bit complicated ... I have 4 costs involved with a sale of a stock item plant to port freight , sea freight ....etc . All these 4 freights can have different vendors .
the doc flow is like this
SO -> PO -GR (Accrual ) - IV ( Miro ) On miro the actual costs a capture till GR i am using a planned costs
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I created PO (stock transfer Plant to plant). In condition I added
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receiving plant.
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Hi
Futher to Imdarpan statement, normally we will have different pricing procedure for STO's for the reason you are mentioning with this procedure for freight you can define acct key & accrual if reqed seperately & while posting respective documents it will not go to material cost it will get accounted in different G/L account.
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Hi Anthony
I am following the procedure as you describe for the freight price condition
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Dear All,
Need help...I configured the following steps in order to capture freight cost during MIRO. but during MIRO,
the GL account captured/defaulted to freight cost is same as the expense accnt instead of the freight cost account..
eg. Expense -1111
      Freight   -2222
      Vendor - 3333
Created 1 PO and maintain the ff:
PO is 1 line item 1pc=1000
ZFR1 - Condition type for Freight cost = 200
At the time of MIRO ( we dont have GR processing),the screen display 2 line item for the expense and freight cost but the GL account defaulted in the freight cost is same as expense account instead of the freight account. then if do a simulate, the following are the entry (which is wrong)
Vendor   1111                 1200
Expense   3333              1000(-)
Expense   3333                200(-)          * supposed to charge to my freight accnt 2222
below step i configured.
created new condition type ZFR1 (copying std FR1B)
put B- Delivery cost and tick 'Accrual' in the settings
maintain transaction event ZFR and posting key
assigned GL acccount to ZFR
include the condition type ZFR1 in the calculation schema, put ZFR in the field 'accrual'
Appreciate all your advise. many thanks in advance.
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She

Hi,
Check your OBYC settings whether you have assigned the correct GL for the new trans Key.
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Post freight cost in diff. G/L of the material cost Accnt Cat. E

Hi MM experts,
I created a PO in reference to Sales Order (account assignment E-Trading materials)
In condition I added a custom condizion for freight (SPRO Cond.category B, flag on accruals).
When I received material the freight cost was added in total stock valuation.
Account    Account short text             Amount Trs
174020     STOCK M VENT DIR                 576,03     BSX
319500     FACT/REC                                 476,03-    WRX
171090     Cte pass.stock march               476,03     EIN
171090     Cte pass.stock march               576,03-    EKG
422000     TRANSPORT                             100,00-    Z03
319500     FACT/REC                          100,00     ZMA
I want to see only stock value without freight cost in G/L account. I want freight cost in other G/L different of the material cost.
I expect that the result is as follows:
174020     STOCK M VENT DIR                  476,03     BSX
319500     FACT/REC                                 476,03-    WRX
422000     TRANSPORT                             100,00-    Z03
319500     FACT/REC                                 100,00     ZMA
Is there any other way to avoid this problem?
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Hi Michela,
This is possible by adding one more condition type with blank condition category and negative value in plus/minus field.
please refer the following wiki which gives step by step configuration.
Appreciate if it is useful
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ERPLO/PostingplanneddeliverycosttoNon-inventoryaccount
Edited by: Raja Ramasamy on Apr 14, 2010 7:20 PM

MM Planned Freight Costs with

Dear friend
Does anyone could guide me to setting up the freight costs by condition FRB1 to ECC put the value of condition as part of costs of material !
Could you explain the behavior of MIRO(Accounting posting) with main item together with planned freight costs !
We need to understand how the SAP input the freight costs into the main item.
best regards,
Ale

Hi Aless,
U have to inventorise freight condition
This can be done by assigning accrual key in m/06
in condition mark tick as accrual..
Other than the Basic price all other condition types can be inventories. for this u have to do the following. at M/08 ( Pricing Procedure) You have to Flag Statistical Indicator(S) and you should give appropriate Account key and Accurals key( exampl FR1, FRE for Freight) and at M/06( condition type) for particular condition type u have to Flag Accurals an control data 2. If u do all the 4 then any condition type can be inventorised as per the business requiredment.

Subcontract Process:Transport/Freight Cost should not be added to Inventory

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I am following subcontract process; the involvement of transport/freight cost should not be added to the inventory account during Goods Receipt (MIG0).
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Hi BIjay,
You may try this
1. New condition type to be created by copying the standard condition type FRA1/FRB1/FRC1
New condition type ZFR1 created by copying FRA1 - M/06.Accrual flagged in this condition type same as FRA1 and Condition category of the new condition type should be Blank and maintain X-Negative value in the plus/minus field. Accrual must be flagged.
2. New account key ZR1 created
OLME -- >conditions -- >Define pricing Determination process -- >Define Transaction/Event keys
3. Assign this condition type to pricing procedure - M/08 .Also assign transaction key ZR1 .
80 1 FRA1 Freight % 70 X FR1
80 2 ZRA1 Freight in spl GL 70 X FRE ZR1
4.GL account maintained in OBYC for this new account key -ZR1
Maintain same conditions for FRA1 and ZFR1.
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Free goods but want to freight cost updation upon GR

Hi,
Scenario:
I have a PO with 20 line items and header freight cost.
There are few more items in PO which are ticked as free goods.
There is a stock of those materials with certain MAP.
Freight condition has been configured as vendor GR so that it gets loaded on materials upon GR.
Requirement is that
Upon GR of this PO,MAPshould get updated with the freight cost for those materials also which have been marked as free goods.
How this can be achieved ?
Regards,
manOO

Hi Rang,
Thanks for the feedback.However service PO is out of scope as client do not want to go for servicees.
I could not understand your suggestion
<u>you give PO to frieght vendor for freight value & in remarks you mention reciving as FREE GOODS from vendor xxxxx & do GR load cost to material & pay to freight vendor. (this is not advisible, but one solution for your problem).</u>
I have to receive one material via purchase order as a free item but I need to pay vendor for the freight charges that will be incurred to ship this item along with all the other items in the same PO.
Can you please explain me further as what you mean to say in your post.
I should be able to load these freight cost on all the materials in PO including the material with 'free' indiactor.
In short upon GR MAP should affect with freight cost as there will not be value addition of the material since received as free.
Please suggest.
Thanks in advance
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In SAP standard STO process, freight cost calculated while Material issued against STO ( 351/641 movement).
Is there any way possible to calculate the freight at the time of goods receipt instead of at the time of Goods Issue..
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Hi Experts,
Summary : The material supplier vendor needs to be paid for full quantity of material. The freight transport is allowed an under tolearance of 0.5% on the material to be supplied. If the delivered material quantity breaches the 0.5% under tolerance then amount at 1.5 times the cost of material for the shortage is to be deducted from the transporter. A dummy GR will have to be prepared for the undelivered quantity for which we do not want the freight cost to be loaded. The details scenario is mentioned below :-
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The material supplier will have to be paid in full 100 nos. of quantity and will raise an invoice for 100 nos. A dummy GRIR for the 0.6 nos. of undelivered material will have to be prepared for processing the invoice for the 100 nos. of the material supplier and a dummy issue for 0.6 nos. of undelivered material will be prepared to remove them from the system.
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We do not want to load the freight cost for the undelivered material in the value of the material.
Can any one please suggest a solution for the same.
Thanks in advance.
AJ.

Hi
A PO Will be raised for full quantity of material say 100 nos.
The material supplier vendor needs to be paid for full quantity of material.
A freight vendor is maintained at the time of GR for material against the freight condition maintained in the Po.
The freight vendor facilitates the delivery of the material from the vendor to the purchaser for which he is given an under tolerance limit of 0.5%. Any delivery below this tolerance limit, freight amount to the effect of 1.5 times the per unit rate of material x short fall below 0.5% tolerance will be deducted from the freight amount.
A dummy grir will have to be prepared for the short delivered quantity for processing the invoice for the full quantity of the purchase order, as the vendor is going to raise the invoice for full purchase order quantity. The client does not want to load the freight cost of the undelivered quantity on the material value as it will wrongly show the MAP of the material. This shortshipped material will be issued to remove it from the system and the stock will remain for the delivered quantity only. The vendor is subject to gr based invoice verification.
Please suggest a solution.
Thanks in advance.
AJ
The freight transport is allowed an under tolearance of 0.5% on the material to be supplied. If the delivered material quantity breaches the 0.5% under tolerance then amount at 1.5 times the cost of material for the shortage is to be deducted from the transporter. A dummy GR will have to be prepared for the undelivered quantity for which we do not want the freight cost to be loaded.

Reducing freight cost for undelivered material

Hi Experts,
Summary : The material supplier vendor needs to be paid for full quantity of material. The freight transport is allowed an under tolearance of 0.5% on the material to be supplied. If the delivered material quantity breaches the 0.5% under tolerance then amount at 1.5 times the cost of material for the shortage is to be deducted from the transporter. A dummy GR will have to be prepared for the undelivered quantity for which we do not want the freight cost to be loaded. The details scenario is mentioned below :-
We have to make a Purchase Order with material code say ABC for procured of some material. Suppose we make a Purchase Order for 100 nos. at a Unit Price of Say Rs. 10/- for Material Code ABC on say Vendor M/s XYZ. A freight condition is maintained in the Conditions Tab and suppose the Freight is Rs. 10 per unit of the material.
While preparing the Goods Receipt through MIGO, in the Freight Tab we select say freight vendor say M/s PQR against the freight condition and post the goods receipt.
While doing Invoice Processing in MIRO, when we enter the combination of Purchase Order and Planned Delivery Cost the system will populate the vendor codes of both the supplier of material and the transporter. On selecting the transporter the freight amount will populate against which the invoice of the tranporter can be processed.
In the Vendor Master of M/s XYZ GR-Based Invoice Verification is activated.
The vendor is allowed an under tolerance of 0.5% (i.e. the vendor should deliver at least 99.50 nos. of the Purchase Order). If the vendor delivers 99.50 or more then there will be no deduction in the freight charges.
But suppose the vendor delivers only 99.4 nos. of the quantity. Then we will prepare the GRIR for 99.4 nos.only. But while processing the MIRO we need to deduct 1.5 times the value of the material from the freight amount for the shortshipped quantity, i.e.
0.1 no (99.5 u2013 99.4) X Rs. 10/- * 1.5 = Rs. 1.5 are to be deducted from the final payment from the freight amount of the transporter.
The material supplier will have to be paid in full 100 nos. of quantity and will raise an invoice for 100 nos. A dummy GRIR for the 0.6 nos. of undelivered material will have to be prepared for processing the invoice for the 100 nos. of the material supplier and a dummy issue for 0.6 nos. of undelivered material will be prepared to remove them from the system.
Hence the freight cost for this 0.6 nos. of undelivered material will also go into the cost of the material and increase the MAP by that amount. Also the goods issue Cost will also have the effect of the freight cost.
We do not want to load the freight cost for the undelivered material in the value of the material.
Can any one please suggest a solution for the same.
Thanks in advance.
AJ.

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PO-Freight cost (header, diff currency with items) not distributed when GR

Dear Gurus,
I've one PO with freight cost at header level (1000 VND). In the PO, this freight amount shown to be distributed successfully to line item (value base, line item 1 is 300 VND, line item 2 is 700 VND). But when doing GR, the freight cost of each line item is NOT distributed but equals the total freight amount (line item 1 is 1000 VND, line item 2 is 1000 VND).
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