Financials

Bill to Party Assignment

This page is accessed via Financials > Power Data > General > Bill to Party Assignment.

Use this page to define a bill to party for each cost. Usually it is defined based on the Incoterms.

Creating a Bill to Party Assignment

  1. Enter a unique ID in the Bill to Party Assignment ID field.
  2. Enter an involved party qualifier in the Bill to Party Qualifier ID field. This qualifier will be used to identify the bill to party.
  3. Enter a description in the Description field.
  4. In the next section, do the following:
    1. Enter a Sequence.
    2. Select a valid Cost Type.
    3. Enter an identifier in the Cost Identifier field. This can be used to differentiate cost of same cost types. On the shipment cost there is a field for cost identifier. If the cost identifier is not present on the shipment cost, then set the value of the property glog.invoice.lineitem.costIdentifer.fetchCostDescription to true to fetch rate cost description of the cost as cost identifier. If false, the cost identifier will depend on the cost identifier defined on the shipment cost.
    4. On the shipment cost there is a field for cost identifier. You can also set the value of the property  to true to fetch the rate cost description as the cost identifier.
    5. Enter an accessorial cost code in the Accessorial Cost ID field.

Note: The hierarchy that will be followed to define the cost is as follows:
First, a combination of the values entered in all the fields Cost Type, Cost Identifier, and Accessorial Cost ID will be looked up to define the cost.
If the accessorial cost ID is not present, then a combination of the values entered in the fields Cost Type and Cost Identifier will be looked up to define the cost.
If the cost identifier is not available, then the value entered in the field Cost Type will be used to define the cost.

    1. Enter an identifier in the Involved Party Qualifier ID field.
    2. Click Save.
  1. Click Finished.

For more information and examples, see Generation and Adjustment of Invoice or Bill using Invoice/Bill Rule.

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