Purpose

You must carry out an initial entry of stock balances when implementing the SAP System in order to transfer physical warehouse stocks or book inventories from an existing system into the SAP System as book inventories. No physical movements actually take place. The initial entry of stock balances can be carried out for the following three stock types:

If the stocks are to be transferred from a legacy system, the initial entry of stock balances for large volumes of data is carried out via the Data Transfer Workbench (see MM Goods Movements: Data Transfer Workbench ).

You can also carry out the initial entry of stock balances manually.

Activities

You use the following movement types to enter an initial entry of stock balances manually:

The quantity taken over into book inventories is posted to the appropriate stock and increases the total valuated stock of the material.