Allocate Services against multiple POs after the invoices for received items have been processed and paid. Example, a Freight Invoice.

Maximo Invoices application has an Allocate Services action which achieves a lot of what is needed. However, it is designed to allocate the services at the same time as the processing of the invoice lines for the receipt of materials and services. When those invoices have already been received and paid a subsequent invoice for freight is received. You need to reference the PO lines against which the standard service of freight will be prorated, but those invoice lines cannot have a quantity or line cost, the quantity should be null and the line cost zero, you do not want to infer that additional quantities or costs have been invoiced, you just want to set the prorated cost and have the loaded cost reflect the prorated cost.

Maximo does not allow you to have a zero line cost in the Allocate Services action you receive an error and there are other issues if you try to work around this. While Maximo allows you to manually set the Prorated Cost it doesn't set the standard service as prorated, that is only set when the Prorate button is used, and this also causes issues.

I think the business scenario could be handled using the current Allocate Services action and manually setting the Prorated Cost with a few small changes. An alternative would be a cloned application that was specifically geared to Freight handling charges which behind the scenes still created invoice records and handled the scenario of a subsequent freight charge, but without the application looking as if it were an invoice, which for many companies is not in the realm of Maximo but an ERP or finance system.