I'm struggling to try to figure out how to add a landed cost to an incoming shipment when the LC comes from another vendor, and to do it in a way that gives us – accounting – a way to match both the product vendor and the service vendor bills.

When we bring in shipments, often we know that there will be a freight charge from the carrier that’s billed separately. I can't add it to the (product) supplier invoice, because then the system will want to pay it to the supplier. But until I receive the carrier invoice, I can't create the (carrier) vendor bill.  I know I can add a Landed Cost (Inventory-> Operations-> Landed Costs), and that in that Landed Cost, I can reference the (carrier) “Vendor Bill” , but only if the bill exists.

Since my purchasing department knows the purchasing contract it makes sense that my purchaser goes into the PO after receiving notice that it’s been received, and creates the draft (material) vendor bill, which is validated by the accounting department once it’s received.  I should hope that there would be a way to create a draft vendor bill from within the PO for a service that is related to the PO, like freight (or brokerage, duties, etc.), when it comes from a provider different than the product vendor.

Am I missing something?

(Using v16)