Goods Issues for Stock Transfers

Use

In SAP Retail consignment processing, when you post goods issues for stock transfers the system always performs stock determination and a price test.

Prerequisites

You have activated consignment processing in SAP Retail.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics – General under Retail Consignment Processing → Activate Retail Consignment Processing

You have defined stock determination strategies for goods issues (delivery) and stock transfers for your own stock, and for consignment stock.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide for Logistics - General under Retail Consignment Processing → Define Strategies for Stock Determination and Define Alternate Stock Determination Rules for Consignment Processing

You have set the Consignment Control indicator for preferential procurement of articles for consignment stock.

Features

When you post goods issues, the system performs stock determination. This identifies whether the system is posting goods from your own stock or from vendor consignment stock.

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You must ensure that the settings for stock determination rules and for the availability check are consistent. If the goods quantity determined by stock determination and the availability check differs, this can create a great deal of unnecessary work in subsequent processes.

For more information about the availability check, see the Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM) component under Availability Check .

The system performs a price test when a goods issue is made. This checks that the same price applies to the goods in both the supplying and the receiving site. You can only perform a stock transfer if the price is the same.

Activities

When the system posts a goods receipt, it uses the information about the original vendor from the goods issue document. You must therefore always post the goods issue before the goods receipt in the receiving site.

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Note the following general points:

You can transfer goods from consignment stock to a site's own stock at any time. However, you cannot transfer goods from your company’s own stock to consignment stock.

It is not possible to make a partial delivery of a delivery item from both consignment stock and a company’s own stock. Nor can you deliver an item from the consignment stock of several special stock managers.

You cannot make partial deliveries to different stock categories for one delivery. If the system has posted a goods issue from the consignment stock for a delivery, it must also post the subsequent goods issue for this delivery from the consignment stock. This also applies if you have cancelled the first goods issue.