Definition
Using External Details in sales documents and purchasing documents, you can store additional information on the origin and the destination of the ship-to party as well as other information which is relevant for shipping. This information is used for calculating US excise duty, among other things. You can also set additional delivery data and define the following additional fields:
The fields: Country, State, County, City, TaxOrig. & Dest. and Alt.Orig.& Dest. in the Origin Destination Information dialog box help you set the origin and destination.
If already defined, the field contents for country, state, county and city for the origin are taken from the plant master data in SD or from the vendor master data in MM. For the destination, the data is taken from the master data for the ship-to party.
You can maintain the additional fields, Tax Orig. & Dest. and Alt. Orig. & Dest. directly in the dialog box. A new pricing process can be started when these additional values are entered, when changes occur in the sales cycle.
In the Miscellaneous Information dialog box, the fields Mode of Transp. and Forwarding Agent are used for calculating the US excise duty for shipments. The mode of transport is taken from the master data for the ship-to party. In the Pipe ex. batch no., Pipe trip no., and Truck number fields, you can enter additional data relevant to shipping.
The Delivery Information dialog box contains the Ext. bill/lading. and Miscell. deliv. no. fields for additional external delivery data. If you know the external bill of lading number and miscellaneous delivery number of the delivery document, you can search for the document using a matchcode. If you enter data in these fields in the delivery, the system automatically copies the data to the invoice.