1.(SAP) Different Ways for StockTransfer between plants

You have different plants in your company and you want to transfer materials from one to the other. You have many reasons for that , e.g. your plants are located geographically in different areas and you anticipate a demand in that area so you transfer materials in advance. Many reasons could be behind this...

The question is: How to do it in SAP ? what transaction code to use ? What affect it might have ?

• in SAP you can do this in 5 ways !

Before we get into more details , lets ask some questions :

• Are the plants far from  each other ?
• in reaility if this is the case , then the trucks will take the material from the issuing plant and take a ride for 1 or more days until the material received in the receiving plant .
• in SAP , do you want to map this also . which means if you issue the material in the system do you want the material to be available in the receiving plant immediatly ? or you want to tell the system that the material left the issuing plant but not yet reached the other one.
• Do you want to record the delivery cost for this transfer ?
• Do you want to use SAP shipping functionality [delivery via Shipping (LE-SHP)] ?
• Do you need the material for direct consumption ?

The answers to those questions let you choose between these different types of transfer :

1. Stock Transfer between plants in 1 step.
2. Stock Transfer between plants in 2 steps.
3. Stock Transport order without delivery .
4. Stock Transport order with delivery via Shipping.
5. Stock Transport order with delivery and Billing/Accounting Document

We will talk about each one in the next posts.