Group-to-Group Transfers

A group-to-group transfer involves moving stock from one grouping work breakdown structure (WBS) element to another. This is not a goods issue to a higher level production order, but a movement of the ownership of stock. Another type of cross-group goods movement is called group-to-group goods issue.

An example of this type of movement is when group A has a sub-component in stock, but does not need it until next month, but group B needs this sub-component immediately, but does not have it in stock. This could lead to a transfer of the stocked material from group A to group B.

You can execute transactions MB1B or MIGO to perform this transfer. Movement types 415 and 416 (cancellation of 415) are used to make group-to-group stock transfers.

If you are using MIGO , you can also enter an initial peg (assigned WBS element) in the field Assigned WBS Element when preparing the stock transfer order/performing a group-to-group transfer (415Q). This field only appears when you have entered all the necessary data for the original grouping WBS element and the receiving grouping WBS element.

In the field Assigned WBS Element field, you enter the individual WBS element to which the costs should be assigned and this is assigned to the receiving WBS element (and is valid for the MRP group of the material being transferred).

If no requirement is created for the material transferred to the receiving grouping WBS or the material is not immediately withdrawn, then the pegging program assigns the excess quantity to the assigned WBS element.

You cannot enter initial pegs in transfer posting transaction MB1B .

You can execute transaction TBLP_TRLO to transfer stock from one WBS element to another WBS element.

Reversing or canceling group-to-group transfers has the same outcome as a forward group-to-group transfer in the opposite direction. When you make a group-to-group transfer of a part with sub-components, you create a pegging dependency between the two groups.

This dependency requires that you run one of the following:

The transfer pegging program allows you to decouple this dependency between the two groups. It re-establishes the missing links from when you ran pegging for the two groups in different pegging runs.

You have the flexibility to alternate between pegging-dependent groups in one pegging run, pegging them independently, and later running transfer pegging. But alternating between groups may change the pegging results.

Therefore, we recommend that you do one of the following:

You do not need to run the transfer pegging program if you meet one of the following criteria:

See also:

Goods Movements Across Groups

Cross-Plant Goods Movement

Group-to-Group Goods Issue

Goods Movements Affecting Pegging and Distribution