Working with Material Transfers

Use material transfers to track material removed from storage in one location to place them in a different location. Material transfers can be scheduled either within one plant or between two separate plants.

With SAP Inventory Manager, you can track transfers from plant to plant. You can also track material transfers from storage location to storage location.

There are two ways that you can move your inventory from the Internal Process main screen. You can move it at the Inventory Manager level by using the Stock Transfers tab to move materials from one location to another. Or you can transfer orders at the warehouse level using the Transfer Orders tab.

Stock transfers at the warehouse level are done through transfer orders which allow you to specify the to and from storage bins. You create a transfer order as a request to move materials from one bin to another. Confirming the transfer order means that the move has physically taken place.

Initiating a Stock Transfer between locations reduces inventory at the issuing storage location and increases inventory at the receiving storage location. A stock transfer at a plant level does not change the stock level: only the stock distribution at the plant is changed.

Remember that transfer orders are bin to bin transfers at the warehouse level and stock transfers are good movement from one storage location to another.

With material transfers, you can:

• Add stock transfers to the device

• Add and download transfer orders to the device

• Edit transfer order header details to clarify the transfer or change the date before it is transferred to the SAP ERP back end.

• Discard, or clear, transfers from the list