Stock Transfer Order [STO]

Company Code

Plant Stock Plant

1000 1200
Transfer

Receiving Plant Supplying Plant

When the stock is going to be moved between two plants or two storage locations that are under single company
code called as stock transfer order business process. Receiving plant raises the purchase order with supplying plant;
supplying plant delivers the goods to the receiving plant by raising sales order.

Configuration steps:

Create Vendor: Transaction code: XK01

Path:

 Logistics
 Material management
 Purchasing
 Master data
 Vendor
 Central
 XK01 – Create

Company code 1000

Purchase organization 1000
Account group 0001

 Save and Exit

Assign Plant to Vendor

 Go to change mode of Vendor [XK02]

 Specify Vendor number that we created in the previous step

Company code 1000

Purchase organization 1000
Check purchasing data under purchasing organization data tab page and press ENTER

 Go to Extras  Add purchasing data

Here we assign supplying plant 1200 to vendor

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  Save and Exit

 Create customer master in XD01

Account group 0001
Company code 1000
Sales organization 1000
Distribution channel 12
Division 00
Plant in shipping data tab 1200

 Save and Exit

Define shipping data for plants

Path:

 IMG
 Material management
 Purchasing
 Purchase order
 Setup stock transfer orders
 Define shipping data for plats
 Choose our plant from position button
 Click on details icon

Here we have to assign customer number to receiving plant [1000]

 Save and Exit

Create material by maintaining “Purchasing” view: Transaction code: MM01

Plant 1000
Storage location 0001
Sales organization 1000
Distribution channel 12

Specify the delivering plant as 1000 in Sales: Sales organization 1 data tab
Purchasing group 005

 Save and Exit

Extend the material from 1000 to 1200

 Go to MM01 and specify the material number that we created in previous step Ex: 277412

Copy from material: 277412

Copy from

Plant 1200 Plant 1000

Storage location 0001 Storage location 0001

Sales organization 1000 Sales organization 1000

Distribution channel 12 Distribution channel 12

 Change plant as 1200 in Sales: Sales organization 1 view

NOTE: As we are extending material from plant 1000 into 1200 plant, system copies all the data into the new plant.
So that we have to change the delivering plant in delivering plant field as 1200 in Sales: Sales organization data 1
view.

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  Save and Exit

 Go to MB1C and initialize the stock

Movement type 561

Plant 1200
Storage location 0001

 Save and Exit

Create Purchase order: Transaction code: ME21N

Path:

 Logistics
 Material management
 Purchasing
 Purchase order
 Create

Select the transfer order

Document type is UB

 Click on Header level icon

Specify vendor number

Supplying plant 1200
Purchasing organization 1000
Purchasing group 005
Company code 1000

 Click on Item level icon

Maintain the material and purchase order quantity

Plant 1000
Storage location 0001

 Save and Exit

Activities due for Shipping (Purchase order fast display): Transaction code: VL10B

Path:

 Logistics
 Logistics execution
 Outbound process
 Goods issue for outbound delivery
 Outbound delivery
 Create
 Collective processing of documents due for delivery
 VL10B

Shipping point 1200

Specify purchase order number and material

 Click on add document data icon on the application tool bar

 Select the line item
 Click on background button from application tool bar
 Click on next and note down the SD document number

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  Go to change mode of outbound deliveries (VL02N)
Now create transfer order by using transaction code LT03 and do the PGI

 Go to MMBE and observe the stock in plant 1200

Stock is going to be reduced

Display stock in transit: Transaction code: MB5T

Path:

 Logistics
 Material management
 Inventory management
 Environment
 Stock
 MB5T – Stock in Transit

Specify the material number

Receiving plant 1000

 Click on execute icon

Here we can observe that stock is in transit

Goods receipt: Transaction code: MIGO

Path:

 Logistics
 Material management
 Inventory management
 Goods movement
 MIGO – Goods movement (MIGO)

Specify purchase order number and item number

 Click on execute icon

Check item OK in the bottom of the page

 Click on POST icon on the application tool bar

Now stock is posted

 Go to MMBE to see the stock overview and observe the stock in the plant 1000

Stock movement types: INTRA and INTER

 INTRA

Stand order type (Document type) = UB

Delivery type = NL

Determination of document type:

Supplying plant + Receiving plant = UB

Supplying plant + UB = NL

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 Movement types:

Issuing plant Receiving plant

Single step 647 101

Two step 641 101

 INTER

Standard order type (Document type) = NB

Delivery type = NLCC

Determination of document type:

Supplying plant + Receiving plant = NB

Supplying plant + NB = NLCC

Movement types:

Issuing plant Receiving plant

Single step 645 101

Two step 643 101

PBXX is the Gross price condition type for Stock Transfer Order

Vendor = Supplying plant

Customer = Receiving plant

NOTE: In single step method updations takes place in both plats simultaneously.
In two-step method updations should takes place manually.

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