Estimated Landed Cost Considerations

Take note of the following considerations when using Estimated Landed Cost:

• Estimated Landed Cost can be used on purchase orders, item receipts, and vendor bills. Transactions for credit card charges and checks are not supported.

• Purchase orders received through inbound shipments are not supported.

• Use of Estimated Landed Cost requires that you check the Enable Estimated Landed Cost box for both standard and custom roles. To enable this box, you must customize or edit roles who want to use estimated landed cost. For more information, see Configuring Roles and Permissions for Estimated Landed Cost.

• In addition to standard ways of entering items and item receipts, landed cost templates are supported and can be applied through the following:

  • When using the Add Multiple option to add items to purchase orders only

  • When using web service and scheduled scripts to create item receipts only

• Landed cost templates that have been set up on parent matrix items can be inherited by their child matrix items. This behavior is applicable to matrix items only. For more information, see the guidelines in the Assigning Landed Cost Templates to Items topic.

• You can use import for landed cost template mappings only. For more information, see Importing Landed Cost Template Mappings.

• Item receipts generated from return authorizations are not supported.

• Estimated landed cost set up on item records are automatically picked up in the line item only if the purchase order is created in NetSuite.

Related Topics

• Estimated Landed Cost
• Estimated Landed Cost Setup Requirements
• Estimated Landed Cost Template Setup Guide
• Guidelines for Estimated Landed Cost on Transactions

General Notices