Good Day Experts,
I would like to know why you cannot apply negative freight to lines on the AP Invoice or AP Reserve Invoice in SAP. Below I will explain the scenario so you can get an idea of the requirement.
I receive a shipment from and overseas supplier and for Custom I require to attach a value to the product for the calculation of customs and other duties yet I don't want these items to carry a value in my books as they are samples and a marketing expense rather than stock. I do however want to maintain the stock levels and manage the stock. I have done the following:
- Generate an invoice for the sample value
- On the line where i have capture the samples, I have a freight allocation reversing the linetotal amount to reduce the value of the product and this should effect the stock price.
- On the overall freight I have a freight amount not linked to stock for the total negative value of the freight from the lines so that the invoice total remains the same.
- I have setup two different freight code to account for the negative amount and positive amount.
On adding the document I get an error "Unallowed item cost [A/P Invoice - Rows - Item's Last Sales Price (OINM)][line: 1] [Message 439-119]". Surely, if SAP are allowing negative documents they should allow the allocation of negative freight lines and only block the document if it were to cause the item to have a negative value. I would be interested to see what the experts have to say about this one. I know the work around is to revalue the stock after the receipt but should a work around be required for this?
Regards,
Ansel
