SAP Note 498143 – FAQ: Stock transfer with delivery in
purchasing
Note Language: English Version: 12 Validity: Valid Since 18.12.2008
Summary
Symptom
This note contains frequently asked questions and answers on the topic of
stock transport orders with delivery. For further information on the
subject of availability checks, refer to Note 498149.
Customizing settings are required to create a delivery for a stock
transport order.
Since there are frequently questions about this,
we are providing the answers required:
1. You must assign a delivery type to the purchase order document
type/supplying plant combination. You can do this in the IMG for
purchasing under "Purchase Order –> Set Up Stock Transport Order
–> Assign Delivery Type and Checking Rule". NL (Replenishment
delivery) is provided for intra-company-code stock transfers and
NLCC (Replenishment delivery cross company) for cross-company-code
stock transfers.
2. You must assign sales and distribution (SD) organizational units
to the supplying plant. They are a sales organization and a
distribution channel. Purchasing –> Purchase order –> Set up
Stock Transport Order –> Plant.
3. You must assign a customer master record to the receiving plant.
IMG Purchasing –> Purchase Order –> Set Up Stock Transport Order
–> Plant. You require a customer master record for the receiving
plant. This customer master record must be created for the
organizational units of the supplying plant (point 2) (Logistics
–> Sales and Distribution –> Master Data –> Business Partners
–> Customers –> Create -> sales and distribution VD01 or total
XD01).
For the intra-company-code stock transport, it is sufficent to
create the customer master record as a goods recipient (VD01).
For the cross-company-code stock transport with shipping and
billing documents, a complete cutomer master reccord is required
(XD01).
4. For the material to be transferred, you must create the sales
organization data for the sales organization/distribution channel
of the supplying plant (point 2), and you must maintain the sales
view (general plant data) for the supplying plant.
5. If there is a cross-company-code stock transport, you must
create a vendor master record for the purchasing organization of
the receiving plant. You must assign the supplying plant to the
vendor master record. The assignment is executed in the vendor
master record from the purchasing organization screen using "Extras
–> Additional Purchasing Data".
6. You must enter a shipping point for the combination of
shipping condition (from the customer master record of the
ordering plant, see point 3) – loading group (from the material
master) – supplying plant, IMG: Logistics Execution –> Shipping
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–> Basic Shipping Functions –> Shipping Point and Goods Receiving
Point Determination –> Assign shipping points.
If all the required settings have not been made, the system informs the
user in the purchase order screen.
The following answers questions related to this environment.
Questionnaire
1. Why is it not possible to change the shipping data in the purchase
order?
2. How is the delivery creation date determined?
3. The purchase order is not in the delivery due list (transaction VL04,
VL10B), or the message "Not possible to determine shipping data for
material &" is displayed in the purchase order.
4. While processing a stock transport order, a termination occurs when
accessing the VETVG table. Why?
5. The stock transport order display in transaction MD04 is incorrect.
Why is the document relevant to MRP/not relevant to MRP?
6. In which situation (intra-company or cross-company) can you use which
document type? What logic is used in inventory management when posting
the goods issue/goods receipt?
7. What is the process for stock transfer returns (store returns)?
8. In internal stock transfers, why is the valuation type set as a
required entry field for a material valuated separately?
9. You change the shipping data in an EnjoySAP purchase order (possibly
implemented as of Release 4.70 or during a customer project for
4.6B/4.6C). Why does the system not determine the route automatically?
10. You create a stock transport order in Release 4.70 or higher. The
shipping data tab page is not displayed even though it should be. Why?
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1. Question:
Why is it not possible to change the shipping data in the purchase order?
Answer:
This function was implemented in Release R/3 Enterprise for EnjoySAP
transactions ME21N/ME22N and was not provided prior to this. The following
fields from the delivery data are also grouped together:
VSBED,VSTEL,LFART,ROUTE, and LPRIO. This means you can only protect all of
these fields or change all of these fields together. It can be implemented
in a customer system Release 4.6B/4.6C as part of remote consulting, see
also Note 769579.
Alternatively, you can define the shipping data by modifying the standard
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release; for more information, see Note 303453.
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2. Question:
How is the delivery creation date determined?
Answer:
As of Release 4.5A, you can activate shipment scheduling and the route
schedule. (IMG for purchasing under Purchase Order –> Set Up Stock
Transfer Order –> Assign delivery type/checking rule). See also Notes
120481, 146829 and 197221. Notes 374424, 451320 and 453127 are relevant for
transactions ME21N and ME22N. Otherwise, the system calculates the delivery
creation date from the delivery schedule date – planned delivery time of
the item, taking the plant calendar into account.
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3. Question:
The purchase order is not in the delivery due list (transaction VL04,
VL10B), or the message "Not possible to determine shipping data for
material &" is displayed in the purchase order.
Answer:
If no shipping data can be determined in the purchase order, check the
necessary settings as described under points 1 to 6 above. The purchase
order is not in the delivery due list (table VETVG) if no item is relevant
for delivery (that is, with no shipping data) or is deleted (LOEKZ), or has
the "Delivery completed" indicator (ELIKZ) or is finally delivered (EGLKZ)
or blocked or completely delivered.
No error message is displayed and you cannot create a delivery. Check if
you set the KZUBEBE indicator in the ‘Shipping parameters at client-level’
(transaction 0SHP). This ensures that a delivery can only be created using
the confirmed quantity. If the purchasing document does not contain a
confirmed quantity, no delivery can be created.
If the purchase order is not included in the delivery due list, although it
should be, search for notes with the terms VETVG or EGLKZ or EKPV.
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4. Question:
While processing a stock transport order, a termination occurs when
accessing the VETVG table. Why?
Answer:
Correct the VETVG table using the report contained in Note 61148. To find
out the cause, refer to Notes 381114, 302375, 61148 or search with keyword
VETVG.
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5. Question:
The stock transport order display in transaction MD04 is incorrect. Why is
the document relevant to MRP/not relevant to MRP?
Answer:
Search for notes on this topic using the keyword EKUB, there can be various
reasons for this problem. The first version of the report from Note 128399,
which deletes unnecessary EKUB entries for performance reasons, may delete
too many entries. The EKUB can be restored again using the report from Note
369732. Also refer to Notes 146979 and 328832.
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6. Question:
In which situation (intra-company or cross-company) can you use which
document type? What logic is used in inventory management when posting the
goods issue/goods receipt?
Answer:
For intra-company events, supplying plant and receiving plant in the same
company code, you have to use a stock transfer document type. That is, the
BSAKZ control indicator is set to "T" for the document type in Customizing
(this is document type UB in the standard system). The posting logic in
inventory management is always that of the internal stock transfer, this
means there is a stock in transit (not only arithmetical) and the value
transfer occurs during the goods issue.
For cross-company code events, supplying plant and receiving plant in
different company codes, you can use both a document type with BSAKZ = ‘T’
and also BSAKZ = ‘ ‘. Then control indicator BSAKZ defines the posting
logic in inventory management.
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7. Question:
What is the process for stock transfer returns (store returns)?
Answer:
The supplying plant and receiving plant entities are not swapped. The
scheduling runs as for non-return items. For a detailed description, refer
to Note 430074.
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8. Question:
In internal stock transfers, why is the valuation type set as a required
entry field for a material valuated separately?
Answer:
The value transfer is executed during the goods issue and therefore the
valuation type must be known. Refer to Note 66953 for a detailed
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description.
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9. Question:
You change the shipping data in an EnjoySAP purchase order (possibly
implemented as of Release 4.70 or during a customer project for 4.6B/4.6C).
Why does the system not determine the route automatically?
Answer:
In the R/3 standard release, the system does not determine the route again
if the shipping data is changed. Only a check is carried out. This is
because SAP provides a more flexible solution with the "ME_PROCESS_PO_CUST"
BAdI.
Customers can adjust the shipping data individually to meet their
requirements in the PROCESS_ITEM method.
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10. Question:
You create a stock transport order in Release 4.70 or higher. The shipping
data tab page is not displayed even though it should be. Why?
Answer:
There is an incomplete entry for the plant or the storage location in the
shipping point determination. Incomplete means that you maintained the
entry "shipping condition, loading group and supplying plant" or "shipping
condition, loading group, supplying plant and storage location" but did not
assign default shipping points to these combinations. For the function that
changes the shipping data to work, a valid shipping point must be
determined automatically by the system. A free entry without automatic
determination is not provided for due to technical restrictions. Delete the
incomplete entry or enter a shipping point.
Other terms
Reason and Prerequisites
Solution
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Header Data
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 18.12.2008 04:11:46
Master Language: German
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: FAQ
Primary Component: MM-PUR-GF-STO Stock Transfer
Secondary Components:
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LE-SHP-GF-AC Availability control Delivery
LE-SHP-DL-STO Stock-Transfer-Order
The Note is release-independent
Related Notes
Number Short Text
1093582 FAQ: Delivery complete indicator ELIKZ
885177 Stock transfer in purchasing: New schedule line processing
769579 Changeability of shipping data in stock transport order
Attributes
Attribute Value
Transaction codes HIER
Transaction codes MD04
Transaction codes VL04