Purpose

The following components are involved in this type of stock transfer:

Purchasing (MM-PUR)in entering the order

Shipping (LE-SHP)in making the delivery from the issuing plant

Characteristics of a Stock Transport Order

The quantity posted from stock is managed as stock in transit in the receiving plant. Once the goods receipt has been posted, the quantity is posted to the specified stock type of the receiving plant.This enables monitoring of the quantity "in transit".

Delivery costs can be entered in the stock transport order under the Conditions tab page.

The transfer posting is valuated at the valuation price of the material in the issuing plant.

If the plants involved belong to different company codes, the transfer between plants is also a transfer between company codes. In this case, the system creates two accounting documents when the goods issue is posted. The stock posting is offset against a company code clearing account.

Process Flow

The receiving plant creates a stock transport order.

Plant A would like to order materials from plant B. Plant A enters a stock transport order. The stock transfer is used to plan the movement.

The issuing plant posts a delivery.

Plant B supplies the goods to plant A. If the Customizing settings for the automatic creation of outbound deliveries are defined accordingly, a replenishment delivery is created automatically. Upon goods issue, the goods are posted to the stock in transit of the receiving plant. Depending on the output determination configuration for the automatic creation of inbound delivery , an inbound delivery is automatically created for the receiving plant. Billing in CRM can be triggered upon goods issue even for non cross-company code stock transfers in some special scenarios. For more information, see Integration of CRM Billing .

The receiving plant posts a goods receipt.

Once the goods arrive in the receiving plant, the plant posts a goods receipt for the inbound delivery. The stock in transit is therefore reduced and the quantity of the specified stock type increased.