Stock Transfer from Plant to Plant (SAP Library - Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP))

Stock Transfer from Plant to Plant

Implementation Options

Within the stock transfer procedure, goods are produced and delivered within a company. The plant that is to receive the goods (receiving plant) orders the goods internally from another plant that is in a position to deliver the goods (issuing plant). The dependent requirements for the components to be transferred are determined in the receiving plant.

You use the stock transfer procedure, if two plants are located far away from each other, as the transport of materials to be transferred is taken into account in MRP with this type of procedure.

You can also transfer the stock manually using stock transport requisitions, orders and delivery schedules. You can find further information in the SAP document Managing Special Stocks and Special Forms of Procurement in Materials Management under Stock Transfer Using Stock Transport Orders.

In addition to stock transfer from plant to plant there is stock transfer from plant to MRP area, which you can use, for example, in subcontracting. You can find further information under Stock Transfer from Plant to MRP Area.

Prerequisites

You have maintained a special procurement key for stock transfer in Customizing for MRP, in the IMG activity Define special procurement type and you have entered the delivering plant there.

You have assigned this special procurement key to the material in the material master of the receiving plant (MRP 2 view).

You have created a material master for the material in the issuing plant.

Process Flow

The following example demonstrates the stock transfer procedure in MRP:

A material in plant 0001 has the special procurement key Stock transfer with issuing plant 0002. This defines that the material is to be procured from plant 0002.

First you plan material requirements in the receiving plant 0001 and then in the issuing plant 0002.
On detecting a shortage in plant 0001, the system automatically creates a planned order for stock transfer or a stock transport requisition in plant 0001 and a release order for the planned order or purchase requisition in plant 0002.

The date of the release order in plant 0002 is determined during scheduling.

In plant 0001, you convert the stock transport requisition into a stock transport order. When doing this, the release order in plant 0002 is automatically converted into a purchase order.

If the planning run in plant 0001 has firstly created a planned order for stock transfer, you must convert this into a purchase requisition and then convert this into a purchase order.

The material is procured and managed as stock in the issuing plant.
When transferring stock, the following postings are necessary:

The removal from storage of the ordered quantity in plant 0002 is carried out by a transfer posting with reference to the purchase order.

The movement type in this case is Transfer posting à Plant to plant à To stock in transit. Stock in transit is the quantity of a material which was withdrawn from the warehouse of the issuing plant but which has not yet been received by the receiving plant.

In the receiving plant, you post a goods receipt for the stock transfer order on receipt of the goods. The stock in transit is then placed in the warehouse of plant 0001.