Landed costs
We have to import material, and it's quite common that we need some help from the transportation company to pick our material up from the airport or seaport and send this material to our company's warehouses. For this type of service, the transportation company will raise an invoice document to get the payment.
There are many types of expenses that are incurred when handling raw material procurement. For example:
Transportation charges
Clearance charges
Custom duties
Handling charges, and so on
It would be better if ADempiere was able to handle these types of charges and apply these costs or charges directly to the raw material. With all of charges assigned to the raw material, we will know exactly how much to spend to acquire this material.
In the procurement context, landed cost is the total cost of goods including purchase price and all types of charges that may be incurred in delivering the ordered material to the company's warehouses.
The question is: how to map and book these...
