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Function documentation Inventory Management: Special Stocks  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

In addition to ordinary stock, special stocks can also exist that have to be managed separately, because they do not belong to your company or are stored at a particular location.

Features

Own Special Stocks

Own special stocks are stocks belonging to your company that are stored with the vendor or the customer.

Consignment goods belonging to your company that are stored with the customer. This stock is not available for Requirements Planning. In Inventory Management you can only post initial entry of inventory data for this special stock. Other goods movements are processed in the Sales and Distribution component (SD).

Packaging articles or means of transport (for example, pallets or crates) which are supplied by your company to a customer and must be returned. Returnable packaging at the customer is not available for Requirements Planning. In Inventory Management you can only post initial entry of inventory data for this special stock. Other goods movements are processed in the Sales and Distribution component (SD).

Since these special stocks are not located at your own company, they are managed on site level and not on storage location level.

These special stocks can be allocated to two different stock types:

All stock types can be inventoried.

Externally-Owned Special Stocks

Externally-owned special stocks belonging to a vendor or customer that are stored at your company:

Consignment stock belonging to the vendor that is stored on your premises. This stock is available for Requirements Planning. Goods movements for vendor consignment stock are explained in the section on consignment.

Multi-trip packaging medium (such as pallets or containers) in which goods can be transported between vendors and customers. Returnable transport packaging from a vendor which is kept on your premises is managed as special stock and assigned as belonging to the vendor. Since it belongs to the vendor, it is not a part of your valuated stock. Goods movements for returnable transport packaging are explained in the section on returnable transport packaging.

Since these special stocks are located at your company, they are managed at storage location level.

These special stocks can be allocated to three different stock types:

All stock types can be inventoried.

For more information, see MM – Managing Special Stocks.