Transfer and Inventory Management in SAP Service Parts Management (SPM)in ERP encompasses the following functions:
Stock transfer functions map the transfer of stock from connected systems (SAP CRM, SAP APO) and execute these transfers in SAP EWM.
For more information, see Stock Transfers .
Inventory management functions hold valuated stock in the Inventory Management (MM-IM) component and communicate this data to Financial Accounting (FI) for further financial processing.
For more information, see Inventory Management .
Transfer and Inventory Management maps processes between the following components:
SAP EWM is the leading system for quantified stock and for goods receipts, goods issues, physical stock transfers, and posting changes.
SAP SPM distributes information about the stock movements between SAP EWM and SAP APO.
SAP APO plans the deployment of stock across storage locations and processes backorders.
SAP CRM is the leading system for returns and assigns returns material authorization (RMA) and core credit request (CCR) numbers.