Stock Transfer Using Stock Transport Order 

Use

A number of procedures are available to enable you to transfer materials from one plant to another:

Features

Advantages of the Stock Transport Order

The transfer of stock using a stock transport order has the following advantages over the transfer of stock without a stock transport order:

  • A goods receipt can be planned in the receiving plant.
  • You can enter a vendor (transport vendor) in the stock transport order.
  • Delivery costs can be entered in the stock transport order.
  • The stock transfer order is part of MRP: Purchase requisitions that were created in MRP can be converted into stock transport orders.
  • The goods issue can be entered using a delivery via Shipping (LE-SHP).
  • The goods receipt can be posted directly to consumption.
  • The entire process can be monitored via the purchase order history.

Characteristics of the Various Stock Transfer Procedures

The following table lists the characteristics of the individual procedures used for stock transfer.

Plant to plant
1 step

Plant to plant
2 steps

St. trnsp. ord. w/o SD

St. trnsp. ord. with SD

St. trnsp. ord. with billing

Order type
MM-PUR

-

-

UB

UB

NB

Movement type
MM-IM

Transfer postg. using 301

GI: 303
GR: 305

GI: 351
GR: 101

GI: 641
GR: 101

GI: 643
GR: 101

Delivery type SD

-

-

-

NL

NLCC

Billing type SD

-

-

-

-

IV

Doc. type MM-IV

-

-

-

-

RE

Price

Valuation price

Valuation price

Valuation price

Valuation price

Pricing in SD and MM

Planning via...

Reservation

-

Purchase order

Purchase order

Purchase order

Stock after GI

-

Stock in transfer

Stock in Transit

Stock in Transit

(Stock in transit CC)

Delivery costs

-

-

yes

yes

yes

Cross-company-code via...

Company code clearing

Company code clearing

Company code clearing

Company code clearing

Revenue account;
GR/IR clearing

You can find an overview of all the movement types in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Inventory Management in the step Copy/Change Movement Types.

Activities

Goods Issue in Inventory Management or in Shipping

You can enter a goods issue for the stock transport order in either Inventory Management (MM-IM) or Shipping (LE-SHP). For goods issues in Shipping, a replenishment delivery is created (see also Posting Goods Issue in Shipping).

Prerequisites for Goods Issues in Shipping:

To process the goods issue via Shipping, the following prerequisites must be fulfilled (see also

Goods Movements via Shipping):

  • In Customizing for Purchasing, a delivery type must be assigned to the purchasing document type. If the document type does not have a delivery type, you can post the goods issue only in Inventory Management.
  • The customer number of the receiving plant must also be maintained in Customizing for Purchasing.
  • In the Customizing system of Sales & Distribution, the shipping point determination must be maintained.
  • In the material master record, shipping data must be maintained.

If the document type contains a delivery type but another requirement is missing (for example, shipping data), you receive either a warning message or an error message (depending on the system configuration) when you try to enter the stock transport order.

If you receive a warning message, you can create the stock transport order, but you can post the goods issue for this item only in Inventory Management.

Stock Transfer Using the Stock Determination Function

If you want to withdraw material for stock transfers from various storage locations and stocks according to a particular strategy, the R/3 System can support you using

Stock Determination.