MM: Delivery Cost

1. Delivery cost is additional cost (freight, custom etc) for delivering goods.
2. Delivery cost can be either planned or unplanned.
1. Planned delivery cost: This cost is known at the time of creating purchase order. Planned delivery coast is entered while creating purchase order on an item basis.
1. During invoice verification, planned delivery cost can be changed.
2. Planned delivery costs are posted to separate accounts (clearing accounts) at goods receipt. This account is cleared when user posts the invoice for these delivery costs.
3.  Planned delivery costs become part of the valuation of a material at GR.
4. In case of price difference planned delivery cost in the PO and in the invoice, this will be treated same as prices variances for ordered material.

2. Unplanned delivery cost: This cost is not known at the time of creating purchase order.
1. Unplanned delivery coast is entered during invoice verification.
2. While entering invoice, total amount of unplanned cost is entered detail tab (not at item level).
3. Unplanned costs can be either distributed to the individual line item or to a separate GL account (configuration).
4. While posting unplanned costs to individual line item, this is treated same as price variance.
5. While posting unplanned costs to separate GL account, this cost is not debited to stock.

3. Delivery can be either settled with invoice for goods or user can create a separate invoice only for delivery costs.