Landing charges definition

In Landing Charge Definition this field contains a four character, user defined code used to identify from which location the goods are shipped. This field relates to functions such as purchasing and bill of landing.

In Work with Purchasing Parameters select the city or country from where the goods will be shipped.

This code identifies how a shipment of goods is sent. Shipping Method codes have additional parameters. These are Extra copies of Invoice, Summary by Country of Origin on Invoice and Label/Cartons.

Title levels group or summarise product details into different levels for analysis purposes and to create definitions that relate to various groups of titles. It is a hierarchical structure.

The title levels or title key levels are system defined, however, each level can hold an unlimited number of user defined codes to identify the various groupings within the level.

Title classification type

Titles can be categorized into several Classification Types.

In Minimum Margin Maint, this field is optional depending on the selection made in the Title Level field.

If for example the Title Key level is I7, then search for a list of valid Classification Types in TMSDS/IC-TYPES.

Landing Charge Definition includes Classification Types 

This field identifies a specific type of landing charge, for a title or group of titles.

Other parameters on the above Control File are used to determine what to do with the Charge Types as they represent various landing charges that are part of a title’s total landed cost. For example the cost can be excluded or included for Bond Store costing, include in Financial Costs and displayed on reports in a nominated report column with a specific report heading. 

This Landed Charge Rate/Value/Duty Code field identifies how the landing charges for a title or group of titles are calculated:

C=Calculated, not allowed in definition.

D=Defaulted value is from Title Masterfile Duty Field.

F=Fixed Value, the value is entered and Charge Basis must be blank.

P=Percentage, not used with Charge Basis K=Weight, V=Volume, W=Volumetric weight.

T=Total is used with Memory field and not allowed in the definition.

U=Unit value charge which is multiplied by volume (Charge Basis V, K, W). 

The percentage rate or fixed value that is used by the landing charge calculation routine, in combination with the Charge Basis, to determine the landing charge for a title or group of titles.

The Charge code determines whether this entry is a percentage rate (charge code of P) or a fixed amount (charge code of F). If defaulted to the duty rate on the Title Masterfile, this entry field must remain blank. 

Charge basis is the basis on which the landing charges for a title or group of titles are calculated.

The Landing Charge Basis Control File stores system defined codes which represent for example, the buying price of the product, the weight and the total calculated landing charges so far plus the buying price etc.

This value is retrieved during shipment receipt, together with the charge rate/value, to calculate the landing charge for this specific landing charge type. 

The memory total field is used by calculation routines such as the Landing Cost calculation program.

Once you have specified how an individual cost type should be calculated (the charge basis, and the rate/value), you are able to identify into which memory column the calculated amount is to be stored. There are 9 memory columns and each is identified by a number ranging from 1 to 5. The numbering of the memory columns enables you to store the calculated charge in more than one memory column. This is done for each cost type, so that calculated amounts for multiple cost types can be accumulated in a single memory column. A maximum of five memory columns can be nominated for one cost type.

In order to create a charge total, the relevant memory column number is specified in the Memory Total field, and all charges that have been accumulated in this memory column are totaled into one amount.