Understanding Carton Charges for Expendable Containers

You can set up billable charges for expendable cartons and track the cartons as inventory, similar to tracking a stock item. At shipment confirmation, the system creates a sales order line for each line on the order that has an item packed in a carton with the Create Sales Order Charge (CSOC) field set to 1. You assign this field value to a carton type in the Container and Carton Codes application. The system carries this value forward to the carton detail.

You can base the charge on either the item quantity or the number of expendable containers used. This table describes how the system processes carton-based and item-based charges.

Charges Based On	Process
Carton Quantity	The system writes a sales order line using the line type Carton (CA). This line type enables you to relieve the carton as inventory at sales update while excluding the carton in the data selection for the ASN, which prevents the carton charge from being extracted to the ASN as a line item. To prevent the carton charge lines from being placed onto a new shipment, ensure that you do not include this order type/line type combination in UDC 49/SD. The order quantity reflects the number of cartons being shipped. Because outer cartons do not always contain sales order information, this information comes from the first inner carton record found with populated sales order information. Additionally, when a carton contains multiple sales order lines, the system associates the charge with the first sales order line found in the carton detail.
Item Quantity	The system writes two sales order lines. The first line is a stock line containing the actual number of cartons. The system uses the line type Carton Inventory (CI) for inventory relief during sales update. The system prevents advanced pricing from processing this line by setting the price to zero and the price override flag to 1. The system uses another line type Carton Charge (CC) to write the sales order lines holding the carton charges. This order type/line type combination must also not be included in UDC 49/SD to prevent the system from assigning the line a new shipment number.

Charges Based On

Process

Carton Quantity

The system writes a sales order line using the line type Carton (CA). This line type enables you to relieve the carton as inventory at sales update while excluding the carton in the data selection for the ASN, which prevents the carton charge from being extracted to the ASN as a line item.

To prevent the carton charge lines from being placed onto a new shipment, ensure that you do not include this order type/line type combination in UDC 49/SD.

The order quantity reflects the number of cartons being shipped. Because outer cartons do not always contain sales order information, this information comes from the first inner carton record found with populated sales order information. Additionally, when a carton contains multiple sales order lines, the system associates the charge with the first sales order line found in the carton detail.

Item Quantity

The system writes two sales order lines. The first line is a stock line containing the actual number of cartons. The system uses the line type Carton Inventory (CI) for inventory relief during sales update. The system prevents advanced pricing from processing this line by setting the price to zero and the price override flag to 1.

The system uses another line type Carton Charge (CC) to write the sales order lines holding the carton charges. This order type/line type combination must also not be included in UDC 49/SD to prevent the system from assigning the line a new shipment number.

The system records the charge lines in the Related Order Cross Reference table (F4080) to provide a link between the carton charge sales order lines and the item's sales order line. This link enables the system to roll up charges for the ASN. The system includes the charge on the Advanced Ship Notice (ASN), but does not extract the charge to the ASN when running the EDI Advanced Ship Notice Extraction program (R47032). The system receives this number on the inbound 850 document for purchase orders.

You must set up these versions for Sales Order Entry (P4210) to process expendable containers.

Version	ZJDE0019	ZJDE0020	ZJDE0021
Version Title	Carton Charges by Carton Quantity	Carton Inventory Relief based on Item Quantity	Carton Charges by Item Quantity
Description	Writes sales order lines based on carton quantities.	Relieves carton inventory based on item quantity.	Writes sales order lines based on item quantity.
Order Type	S4	S4	S4
Line Type	CA	CI	CC
Override Next Status	580	620	580
Line Number Increment	.01	.01	.01
Status Code Limit for Changes	560	560	560
Inventory Commitment Checking	Blank = Bypass Availability Checking	Blank = Bypass Availability Checking	Blank = Bypass Availability Checking

The system uses these tables for processing carton charge information:

F4620
F46091
F4080