Definition

Physical material deliveries from one usage site to another (onward delivery) require a “warehouse/storage location” in the system as a type of intermediate recipient. This “warehouse” is known as the “intermediate recipient”.

Use

If materials are shipped from usage site to usage site, the warehouse, or intermediate recipient, must first purchase back the materials and then resell them to the next usage site. The Intermediate Recipient adopts the double role of the warehouse to which the sending usage site would return the materials and from which the receiving usage site would receive these materials.

The intermediate recipient must have reference type “warehouse”. For more information about the intermediate recipient, see the appropriate chapters in the IMG under:

Integration

The system checks the Intermediate Recipient when you create a shipping document (see: Creating a Shipping Document ) if the resource “material” has been defined in the document type.

You can define an intermediate recipient per company code, business area and plant in Customizing. This intermediate recipient appears as default entry when you enter a shipping document but you change it in accordance with your Customizing setting.

Structure (Intermediate Recipient Within a Company Code)

Structure (Intermediate Recipient Across Different Company Codes)