Enter Purchase Charge Group

Explanation

Purchase charge groups are used to categorize different purchase charge types, such as freight, custom, insurance, and service fees. This means that, before you enter a charge type, you need to either enter a charge group or use an existing one. The information entered in the tab for Procurement Basic Data/Purchase Charge Groups  and the Purchase Charge  window is used on the purchase order. In the lower part of the window, you can enter some optional information to be used for entering the description of the charge group in different languages.

Each charge group is defined with a level. The charge level is used when calculating the net amounts of charges with a charge percentage which is line connected or distributed. Net amounts of charges with a lesser charge level are included in the calculation basis of a percentage charge with a greater charge level. For the calculation of landed costs, the purchase price is used as the basis of the calculation and then the charge group with level 0 is added to the calculation followed by the charge group level 1 etc. A partial sum is calculated after each level.
 

Prerequisites

N/A

System Effects

As a result of this activity a purchase charge group is created.

Window

Procurement Basic Data

Related Window Descriptions

Procurement Basic Data
Procurement Basic Data/Purchase Charge Groups

Procedure

  1. Open the Procurement Basic Data window and then click the Purchase Charge Groups tab.
  2. Create a new record.
  3. Enter the short code and the description for the charge group in the corresponding fields.
  4. Enter the level of the group in the Level field.
  5. Save the record.

The following steps are optional:

  1. In the lower part of the window, you can enter the language code by using the list of values or by entering the proper short code.
  2. In the second description filed, you should use the language chosen in the Language Code column and enter the description of the charge group.
  3. Save the record.