Working with Stock Transport Orders

Stock transport orders (STOs) are transfers between different plants in the same company.

The benefits of using stock transport order are:

  • A goods receipt can be planned in the receving plant

  • You can entor a transport vendor in the stock transport order

  • Delivery costs can be entered in the stock transport order

  • The stock transfer order is part of MRP (Material Requirements Planning): purchase requisitions that were created in MRP can be converted into stock transport orders.

  • The goods issue can be entered using a delivery through Shipping

  • The goods receipt can be posted directly to consumption

  • The entire process can be monitored through the purchase order history

Each record in the list represents one stock transport order. The main stock transport order list provides the following information:

  • Total number of items in the stock transport order list

  • STO number

  • Order type

  • Supplying plant and description of the order

  • Document date

  • Item count

For each selected stock transport order, you can:

  • Post the selected stock transport order

  • Discard the selected stock transport order

Stock Transport Order with Warehouse Stock Enabled

The stock transport order feature is supported at the warehouse level.