Packaging material fees are paid at certain intervals to a recycling company. An amount per unit of weight has to be paid for each material that a packing unit consists of. Packaging material fees are calculated and reported, but no ledger transactions are posted because the fees are not regarded as taxes that have to be paid to an authority.
Even if your company does not pay packaging material fees, you can use the functionality to calculate statistics for packaging material weights.
You define one or more packing units for an item, a packaging group of items, or for all items. A packing unit consists of the different packaging materials and their weights in addition to the number of items that are included in the packing unit. The packaging materials are defined as packaging material codes.
For the packaging material codes and periods, you can specify prices, which are used to calculate packaging material fees.
Packaging material weights and fees are calculated for both sales and purchase order lines.
Base
data
Before you calculate packaging material weights or fees, or both, create the following base data:
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Packaging groups |
Create packaging groups to assign to items. |
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Packaging material codes |
Create packaging material codes that correspond to the packaging materials. |
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Packing units |
Specify a packing unit for an item, a packing group, or for all items. For each packing unit, define which packaging materials are included, assign weights, and add the number of items that are included in the packing unit ( ). |
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Packaging material fees |
Specify packaging material fees per packaging material code. For each type of material, define the period of validity, price per material, currency, and the unit. |
Sales
orders
When you create a sales order line, a check is made to see if packing units have been specified for the item. If this is the case, the sales order line is updated automatically with the specified packing unit and the packing unit quantity. The packing unit quantity is calculated automatically, based on the ordered quantity divided by the number of items in the selected packing unit. If a packing unit has not been specified, you can enter a packing unit and a packing unit quantity manually on the sales order line.
It is also possible to change the packing unit and the packing unit quantity when you post the sales order line. This is relevant if the sales order line is only partly delivered or invoiced.
When you invoice the sales order, packaging material transactions are created, which contain the weights of the packaging materials for the sales line. You can also edit the transactions after invoicing and create new transactions. The information about packaging material weights can be printed on the invoice or you can print a report, or you can do both.
Packaging material fees are calculated when the and reports are printed.
Purchase
orders
Packaging material transactions for purchase order lines are not created automatically as they are for sales order lines. You create transactions for invoiced purchase orders manually in the form.
To calculate packaging material weights, print the report.
Packaging material fees are calculated when the and reports are printed.
Reports
You can create the following reports on packaging material weights and fees:
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Print the sales packaging material transactions within a specific period. The report summarizes the weights by packaging material codes. |
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Print the purchase packaging material transactions within a specific period. The report summarizes the weights by packaging material codes. |
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Print the packaging material weights and fees summarized by packaging material code based on the sales and purchase packaging material transactions within the specified period. |
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Print the notifications to the Altstoff Recycling Austria AG (ARA) per month, per quarter or per year. |
