Allocation of Costs and Assigning General Ledger Codes

When consolidating LTL shipments into TL shipments, you may want to divide the cost of the TL shipment among the orders on the shipment. Dividing the cost helps understand how much of each order is responsible for the shipment cost.

Configuring Allocation of Costs and Assigning General Ledger Codes

1. Create allocation rule.
2. Create allocation rule profile.
3. Assign the allocation rule profile to a service provider.
   1. Create sell rates for service provider.
4. Create General Ledger Key Components Order for Buy and Sell.
5. Create General Ledger Lookup Key Order for Buy and Sell.
6. Create General Ledger Codes for Buy and Sell.
7. Set up an Automation Agent to automatically assign Order General Ledger Codes when a buy shipment is created.