Inventory Management: Negative Stocks For Standard-Price Materials
Description
Release 3.0 enables you to have negative stocks for standard-price materials in Inventory Management.
Negative stocks are necessary if, for example, goods issues are entered before the corresponding goods receipts for organizational reasons and the material is already physically located in the warehouse.
Once the goods receipts have been posted, the book inventory balance must again correspond to the physical stock, that is, the book inventory balance may no longer be negative.
Negative stocks are always a sign that physical movements must be entered in the system at a later stage.
Example
1,000 pieces of a material are delivered. Due to insufficient time, the
goods receipt is not yet entered in the system.
Physical stock:
Book inventory balance:
The material is needed urgently and 100 pieces are withdrawn from the
warehouse. The goods issue is entered in the system straightaway.
Physical stock:
Book inventory balance:
The goods receipt of 1,000 pieces is posted at the end of the day.
Physical stock:
Book inventory balance:
Further notes
Negative stocks are possible only for standard-price materials.
If you work with negative stocks, you must ensure that
- no negative stocks continue to exist at the balance sheet key date
- no negative stocks exist in the previous month at the time of month-end closing
Change system parameters in customizing
To be able to work with negative stocks, you must allow them for the
valuation area and for the storage location in the Customizing system for
Inventory Management.
Proceed
To find out more about setting negative stocks, refer to the step 
Allow negative stocks in the Implementation Guide for Inventory
Management.
Changes in procedure
In the material master record you must set the indicator Neg. stocks in plant . Only then are negative stock balances allowed for the material in the plant.