Vendors

Defining Vendors as Transport Providers

To enable the Fuel Surcharge Index action, you must define a Vendor as a Transport Company.

Steps to Define a Vendor as a Transport Company

1. Open the Vendor Card.
2. Designate the vendor as a Transport Company:

Fuel Surcharge Index

To define and manage the applicable indices for the vendor:

1. From the Vendor Card, select the Fuel Surcharge Index action:

2. Define the Fuel Surcharge Index (in %) for the selected date (value must be ≥ 0).

3. The new Fuel Surcharge Index (%) will be applied only to newly created Landed Costs.

4. To update the Fuel Surcharge Index on existing Landed Costs, Landed Costs Assignments, Posted Landed Costs, and Posted Landed Costs Assignments (open entries that are not partially invoiced), use the Update Open Landed Costs action:

Important Notes

• If the Transport Company is set to False, existing Fuel Surcharge records will be removed if the user clicks Yes on the confirmation message.
• Vendors with open landed costs cannot be removed as Transport Companies.