Program SPFM, Freight Code Maintenance, is used to add, delete, and maintain freight shipment method codes for your financial enterprise. These codes are used in programs throughout the system to identify freight shipment methods. You cannot delete codes that are currently in use.
1. Enter the freight code.
2. Enter the freight code description.
3. Enter the distribution code, which can be either A - Account or D - Default.
* If you enter A - Account, you can enter the general ledger account number to which freight amounts will be charged in the Accounts Payable Posting Account field.
* If A - Account is selected and account is blank, freight charges will be distributed to the account entered in program APEM, Enterprise Maintenance. If no account was entered in program APEM, AP Enterprise Maintenance, the freight charge will be posted to the account assigned to the FRT post type in program GPTM, Posting Template Maintenance, for the Accounts Payable Posting Interface.
* If you enter D - Default, during voucher entry, the amount will be charged to the same account number as the item.
4. Enter the general ledger posting account, if desired.
* If the general ledger interface is active, the program does not accept account numbers not on file in program GLTM, Account Maintenance.
* If you leave the field blank, the default freight account number defined in program APEM, AP Enterprise Maintenance, will be used. If no account was entered in program APEM, AP Enterprise Maintenance, the freight charge will be posted to the account assigned to the FRT post type in program GPTM, Posting Template Maintenance, for the Accounts Payable Posting Interface.
* The account number entered here is only used in Accounts Payable transactions for the freight code.
5. Press [Commit].