With the goods receipt (GR) you post the physical inward movement of goods from an external vendor or from production and then complete a goods movement, which leads to an increase in the warehouse stock.
The system allows you to process goods receipt for different segments of the material. You can maintain the quantity delivered for each stock segment on the Item Detail screen. In addition, you can maintain the stock segment for materials both in the Item Overview screen and in the Batch tab of the Item Detail screen. Before posting the goods, you can change stock segment for a material only by using the transaction MIGO.
If the receiving plant is not relevant for segmentation, then stock segment for a material is invisible in the following scenarios:
For goods movement with reference to documents, for example Purchase Order
For transfer posting
For goods movement with reference to others
You must use batch management for materials with stock segment. The system assigns a batch number to the material when you post a goods receipt. The batch number the system determines is based on the batch indicators you set in the material master. For more information about batch management, see Batch Management for Material Segmentation.