Sales order stock is inventory that results from a make-to-production sales order. Products are made or assembled in response to the customer’s order. The resulting stock is assigned specifically to the customer’s sales order and becomes part of sales order stock. The stock components can only be used for the production of the make-to-order items ordered by the customer.Finished products can only be delivered to the customer by means of the assigned sales orders.

In order to manage sales order stock of a material for different sales orders, special stock data is required in the material master record. Special stock data for a material is managed at the storage location level. If the material must be managed in batches, special stock data must be created for each batch.

The system automatically creates special stock data during the first inward movement of sales order stock. The data cannot be maintained manually but instead is automatically updated with every goods movement (or taking of physical inventory).

The following stock types are available for use with sales order stock:

• Unrestricted use

• quality inspection

• Blocked stock

Sales order stock is not available for material requirements planning (MRP).

The following movement types are available for sales order stock (in each case, including cancellation and returns):

• Inward movement of goods

• Goods receipt on the basis of a purchase order, provided that the purchase order item is assigned to an account
• Goods receipt for a production order, provided that the production order is assigned to a sales order
• Goods receipt without a purchase order
• Goods receipt without a production order
• Initial entry of stock balances

• Outward movement of goods

• Goods issue for a sales order
• Goods issue for an order
• Taking a sample of stock
• Scrapping stock

• Transfer posting

• Transfer into customer's own stock
• Transfer from one storage location to another
• Transfer between stocks which have the status unrestricted use, quality inspection, and blocked.

When you carry out a goods movement for sales order stock, please take the following points into account:

• If you carry out a goods movement based on a purchase order or production order, the sales order number and items are copied from the reference document.

• If you change a goods movement, you must enter the sales order number and the item.