Purpose
This business process allows you to post the transfer of merchandise between different organizational units in two steps.
Goods movements are made in a company not only in the form of goods receipts and goods issues. Depending on how the company is organized (such as decentralized storage) or on the sales and distribution policies of the company, stock sometimes has to be transferred within the company. This has to be mapped in the system.
Stock transfers can be posted at various levels:
A stock transfer always comprises the posting of a goods issue from one organizational unit (storage location, site or company code) and the posting of a goods receipt in another (storage location, site or company code).
With stock transfers using the transfer posting procedure in two steps, the goods receipt and goods issue are entered and posted in the system in two steps.
Postings are only made in Inventory Management; that is, no purchase orders or deliveries are generated.
The transfer of stock in two steps is only suitable for retailers in special cases (such as when stock is being transferred between stores).
Prerequisites
If you are transferring stock from site to site and the article is subject to split valuation in the receiving site, you can only post the transfer posting using the single step procedure or via a stock transport order.
Process Flow
If you do not use Warehouse Management, this process also includes the physical putaway of the goods.
See also:
Stock Transfer in a Single Step