You can use the Charge Allocations window to automatically create freight or miscellaneous distributions.
The charge distributions you create are allocated Freight or Miscellaneous distributions. Allocation associates a charge with the cost of an item on a receipt. This allocation information is used to record the full cost of a receipt item if you use one of the Periodic Costing options available in Oracle Cost Management.

In the Charge Allocations window, you specify the following:

• The charge amount and type (freight or miscellaneous)
• The distributions to which the charge will be allocated
• The charge amount associated with each distribution. You can either specify an exact amount to allocate to each distribution, or you can prorate the charge amount across all selected distributions.

For each selected distribution, Payables creates a charge distribution and records the allocation. The new distribution has the same GL account as the distribution to which you allocate it. After Payables creates the distribution you can update the account any time before the invoice is accounted.

For example, on a $110 invoice, you want to allocate $10 of a miscellaneous charge to two Item distributions. Enter the $110 invoice and enter two Item distributions, one for $75 and one for $25. Prorate the Miscellaneous charge of $10 to the two Item distributions. Payables creates two Miscellaneous distributions, one for $7.50 and one for $2.50. The Miscellaneous distributions have the same account as the Item distributions.