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Process documentation Stock Transfer in a Single Step  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

This business process allows you to post the transfer of merchandise between different organizational units in a single step.

Goods movements are made in a company not only in the form of goods receipts and goods issues. Due to the way a company is organized (such as decentralized storage) or the sales and distribution policies of the company, stock sometimes has to be transferred within the company. This has to be mapped in the system with the smallest number of postings.

Stock transfers can be posted at various levels:

A stock transfer always comprises the posting of a goods issue from the one organizational unit (storage location, site or company code) and the posting of a goods receipt in another (storage location, site or company code). With stock transfers using the transfer posting procedure in a single step, the goods receipt and goods issue are entered and posted in the system in a single step.

Postings are only made in Inventory Management; that is, no purchase orders or deliveries are generated.

The transfer of stock in a single step is only suitable for retailers in special cases (such as when pallets are being returned) and requires smooth and efficient communication between the organizational units concerned.

Process Flow

  1. If a reservation exists, you carry out the stock transfer referring to the document and are thus able to copy data from the reservation to the stock transfer. You can change the items as required. Proceed with step 5.

    2. If no reservation exists, proceed with step 2.

  2. Choose a stock transfer type:
  1. You enter the issuing organizational unit, receiving unit, article and quantity.
  2. If the article is subject to split valuation, you enter the valuation type (such as promotion stock or standard stock) in the issuing and/or receiving site.
  3. The system adopts any empties items.
  4. If you require, you can enter any returnable transport packaging (RTP).
  5. The system checks the availability of the article.
  6. You post the stock transfer and print the goods issue/receipt slip if you require it.
  7. If Warehouse Management is not active, this process also includes the physical transfer of the goods.

 

See also:

Stock Transfer in Two Steps