Analyze Landed Cost Charges and Variances

You can analyze and compare landed cost trends and variances across business units, inventory organizations, and items from the Landed Costs Summary page. Using this page, you can identify where your highest landed costs originate, identify specific charges driving the overall spending, and drill down to the contributing items behind each charge. You can also compare the same items across inventory organizations to understand differences in their landed costs. You get a single consolidated view of landed cost charges and variances without the need to navigate between pages.

Use the View By filter to analyze landed cost charges and variances. On the Landed Costs Summary page, you can perform these tasks for landed cost analysis:

• View the items and inventory organizations contributing to specific charges, along with each item's share of the total landed cost. You can navigate directly to the Item Landed Costs page by clicking an item.

• View the top five charges by total amount or variance without selecting or setting any dimensions.

• Use percentage-based filters to highlight variances or landed cost percentages that exceed the defined thresholds.

• When viewing charges, you can sort by purchase value to prioritize high-impact items and understand cost distribution or by each charge’s percentage of the total landed cost.

• When viewing variances, you can compare estimated charges against actual charges by item and organization and identify cost discrepancies using favorable or unfavorable badges when actuals differ from estimates.

• Verify data accuracy by checking the last summarized date to ensure that you're always working with the latest landed cost information. If the last summarized date is from the past, run the Summarize Landed Costs process to view the latest data.

To analyze landed cost charges and variances:

1. In the Receipt Accounting work area, select Landed Costs Summary from the Quick actions menu.

2. Click Summarize Landed Cost to run the process.

   This process prepares landed cost data for multidimensional analysis.

3. Click View By.

4. From the View list, select the type of data you want to view:

   • Select Landed cost charges to analyze the charges data. This is the default option.
   • Select Landed costs variances to analyze cost variances.
5. Specify the date range for which you want to analyze the data. Specify the date range in the Receipt Date Range Start Date and Receipt Date Range End Date fields.

6. Click Apply to view the data.