Allowing Negative Stocks

Use

Negative stocks are required 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.

If the first movement of a material is an outward movement, in Customizing for Inventory Management, you can activate the automatic creation of storage location data at goods issue for plant and movement type.

Once the goods receipts have been posted, the book inventory balance must correspond to the physical stock, that is, the book inventory balance must no longer be negative.

Prerequisites

To work with negative stocks, you have to:

explicitly allow this in the Customizing system for each valuation area and storage location

set the indicator Neg. stocks in plant in the material master record of the individual materials (storage data)

Negative stocks are allowed for special stocks if you have activated negative stocks in the valuation area and for the special stock concerned in the plant. You do not need to activate negative stocks in each material master record.

Features

For unrestricted-use stock you can work with negative stocks for the following materials:

Materials with standard price

Materials with moving average price

and for the following special stocks:

Vendor consignment goods (K)

Stock of material provided to vendor (O)

Consignment stock at customer (W)

Sales order stock (E)

Project stock (Q)

Returnable packaging at customer (V)

Returnable transport packaging (R)

Example

Negative stocks always indicate that physical movements must be entered in the system at a later stage.