AIM

MD.050 INTERCOMPANY FREIGHT LINES

FUNCTIONAL DESIGN
School Specialty Inc.

Author: LK Sarda
Creation Date: July 23, 2009
Last Updated: July 27, 2009
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 Table of Contents
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Topical Essay.................................................................................................................................................................1
Basic Business Needs.............................................................................................................................................1
User Procedures......................................................................................................................................................1
Technical Overview.....................................................................................................................................................2
Technical Estimates......................................................................................................................................................3
Assumptions...........................................................................................................................................................3
Questions.................................................................................................................................................................3
Proposed Approach...............................................................................................................................................3
Open and Closed Issues for this Deliverable...........................................................................................................4
Open Issues.............................................................................................................................................................4
Closed Issues...........................................................................................................................................................4

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Topical Essay
Oracle’s standard functionality for Intercompany is to always include the Freight Charge on
Intercompany AR and AP invoices. As a result of this, the freight amount charged by the CA OU to its
external customer would be charged by US OU on its intercompany invoice to CA OU. This, however,
doesn’t work with the way freight expenses are booked between CA OU and US OU. The requirement,
therefore, is to exclude freight charge from Intercompany AR invoice. This would then automatically
exclude the freight charge from Intercompany AP invoice. Since there is no standard option to exclude
freight from intercompany AR or charge a rate different from what’s charged to the external customer,
we need to custom component to drop the freight lines from AR interface table.

Basic Business Needs

For Intercompany AR Invoices, exclude Freight Lines from AutoInvoice interface table by deleting or
updating to make these lines non-importable.
We already have a custom program, SSI Populate AR Interface Distributions, to do certain updates on the
data at AutoInvoice interface tables. This program could be updated to include the requirement of this
MD.50.

User Procedures
1. Enter and book Order in Canadian OU and select a US warehouse for shipment. Make sure that
there is freight charge on the order
2. Pick Release
3. Ship Confirm
4. Run Workflow Background Process
5. Run Autoinvoice import in Canadian OU - Request Set SSI Transfer data from OM to AR
Interface lines and Distribution - 065 INVOICES ONLY
6. Confirm that invoice for external customer has been successfully imported with freight charge.
7. Run Create Intercompany AR Invoices program from Inventory module
8. Query ra_interface_lines_all table to see that it has lines for both Item and Freight.

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Technical Overview.
Considerations

The existing program, SSI Populate AR Interface Distributions, could be used to include the requirement
of this MD.50. One of the functionality of this program is to populate the distribution lines. Deleting of
freight line should be done before populating of distribution. Following conditions could appropriately
identify the lines to be deleted:

INTERFACE_LINE_CONTEXT = ‘INTERCOMPANY’
BATCH_SOURCE_NAME = ‘Intercompany’
LINE_TYPE = ‘FREIGHT’
SALES_ORDER_LINE IS NULL
ORG_ID = 101

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Technical Estimates
Assumptions
The proposed alternative and estimated work effort is based on the following assumptions:
Questions
The following questions need to be answered to get a clear picture of the actual requirement:
 None
Proposed Approach
Attention: The recommendation and estimates below are based on limited analysis and do not
constitute a design document. The estimates are not a firm commitment to perform any work
and do not represent a maximum limit on the effort required to complete the proposed approach.
Design Estimate: ½ day, Development/Documentation/Unit Test: 1 ½ days
Development Task Design Build Test Upgrade

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Open and Closed Issues for this Deliverable

Open Issues

ID Issue Resolution Responsibility Target Date Impact

Date

Closed Issues

ID Issue Resolution Responsibility Target Date Impact

Date

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