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If you import components, the price on your purchase order is rarely what the part really costs you. Duties, freight, insurance and handling show up on separate invoices, often weeks after the goods land, and until they are booked, your inventory value, cost of goods sold and product margin are all built on a number that is already out of date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sage Intacct<\/a> has a built-in answer in its Landed Costs workflow. You post an estimate of those costs with the purchase, and the actual invoice replaces it when it arrives, so your item cost reflects the full acquisition cost much sooner. The catch is that it does not configure itself. It depends on how your implementation partner set up Inventory Control and Purchasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we will look at the gap, walk through how the process works in Sage Intacct, show what changes in your numbers, and give you six questions to put to your partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding Sage Intacct Landed Costs for Manufacturers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Picture a discrete manufacturer of precision assemblies (an illustrative example) that receives $100,000 of imported components against a purchase order. The goods are received, costed at the PO price and issued to production. Six weeks later, the customs and freight invoices arrive and add $14,000 to what those components really cost. By then, some of the stock has been consumed, some has shipped inside finished goods, and the month has closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gap Between Receipt and the Duty Invoice<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your finance team makes a manual adjustment, usually in a spreadsheet, and the margin report leadership relied on turns out to have been optimistic. It matters more now than it did a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Rootstock’s 2026 manufacturing survey, 39% of manufacturers expected higher raw material or component costs because of tariffs, and 29% expected cost forecasting to get harder. When your inputs move that often, a costing process that waits for the last invoice is always looking backwards. That is all the time we will spend on the problem. The rest of this article is about the fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Landed Costs Work in Sage Intacct<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sage Intacct uses the term landed costs for the extra acquisition expenses that affect inventory valuation. To use the feature, you need subscriptions to both Inventory Control and Purchasing. With those in place, the process runs in a clear sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 0, the goods arrive.<\/strong> Your team posts an estimate for each expected cost and picks how it is spread across the items: count, value, volume or weight. Value suits duties, which are typically charged on shipment value; freight may suit weight or volume. When the goods invoice posts, Sage Intacct raises item value by the estimate automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 42, or whenever the real invoice lands.<\/strong> Your team enters the actual cost and links it to the original purchase. Sage Intacct spreads it by the same method, adds it to item valuation and removes the estimate, using two inventory adjustments so the correction is traceable rather than a month-end lump sum. Estimates are optional, but they are what brings cost visibility forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before your first shipment, three things to set up:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n