Field help (POHSTCNUM)

The management of landed costs makes it possible to quantify the routing costs of the goods ordered from a supplier and to allocate them to the products upon order, receipt or invoice. These costs are used for the calculation of the purchase cost and stock cost.
The evaluation of these costs can be performed according to one of the two following methods:

• global method in which a Landed cost coefficient is applied and/or a Fixed cost per unit is taken into account,
• method in which a set of costs detailed in a cost structure is taken into account.

Only one method can be used, the choice of this method is performed at the level of the product management.

A cost structure details all the costs that are considered as fixed costs and can be identified at the time of the purchase. These costs are expressed in the currency of the company.
The presence of this field depends on the entry transaction used.

When managed, this information is initialized based on the cost structure entered for the storage site of the product-supplier, in the Landed costs - Site function.
If no record exists for the storage site of the product-supplier, the cost structure displayed on the Product-supplier record is used. If the cost structure is not specified for this record, no cost structure is considered for the product-supplier.
If the product-supplier does not exist, the cost structure entered on the Purchase section of the Product record is taken into account instead. It can never be modified.
If the cost structure is not specified on a record, the system will not suggest the cost structure of the next-level record.

In order to display the detail of costs included in the cost structure, click Cost structure detail from the Actions icon. It remains possible to adjust the calculated amounts.
These costs are also displayed in a window when clicking Line cost from the Actions icon (this amount is displayed on the Cost detail section - Direct costs table).