If you post a stock transfer from plant to plant using the two-step procedure, you post the removal from storage at the issuing plant first. After you post the removal from storage, the quantity being transferred is managed in stock in transfer at the receiving plant. It is not yet part of unrestricted-use stock, however.

You post the placement into storage at the receiving plant in a second step. Only then is the event completed and the transferred quantity part of unrestricted-use stock.

Possible reasons for carrying out the a stock transfer in two steps may be: The plants are located at quite a distance from each other and the goods are in transit for a prolonged period of time; or there is one employee responsible at each plant, and each can only post movements for his/her own plant.

Damage that occurs during transport and that leads to scrapping of the goods must be reported in the system, so that the transfer stock can be corrected accordingly. There are two ways of doing this:

It is important that the scrapped quantity does not remain in stock in transfer, but is reported in the system as scrapped.