Override Contractual Costs and Service Charges for a Despatch Order

If you override budgeted costs and their rate details with this activity, only these rate details are included in snapshot calculations.

If you override costs and service charges and their rate details with this activity, only these rate details are included in snapshot and invoice calculations. Any costs and service charges added on the Service Charges tab of the despatch order or on an associated despatch are ignored.

Overrides and contract charges specified for an aggregated parent despatch order (APDO), consignment parent despatch order (CPDO) or split parent despatch order (SPDO) also apply to any child despatch orders (CDOs) (unless the CDOs have their own overrides). See Parent and Child Despatch Orders.

Budgeted costs, costs and service charges can also be copied and pasted. See Costs and Service Charges.

Security Note: You need the Allow the user to maintain despatch orders and Allow the user to override service charges for despatch orders security rights in the Contracts domain security group for this activity. For overriding costs, you also need the Allow the user to maintain costs security right in the Contracts domain security group.

Activity Steps

  1. Open the Despatch Order.
  2. Select the Contract Term Overrides tab.
  3. To override budgeted costs:
    1. Check Override Budgeted Costs.

      Note: If unchecked later, even if values were entered for budgeted cost overrides, those values are not used on the despatch order's snapshot.

      The Service Charges contract terms node displays.

    2. Override, remove or add budgeted costs as required. See Enter Budgeted Costs for a Set of Contract Terms.
  4. To override costs or service charges:
    1. Check Override Service Charges.

      Note: If unchecked later, even if values were entered for the cost and service charge overrides, those values are not used on the despatch order's snapshot or invoices.

      The Service Charges contract terms node displays.

    2. Override, remove or add costs as required. See Enter Costs for a Set of Contract Terms.
    3. Override service charge rate details as required. See Override Service Charge Rate Details for a Set of Contract Terms.
    4. Enter additional service charges as required. See Enter a Service Charge for a Set of Contract Terms.
  5. Click Save.