Performing Stock Transfers Between Storage Locations

A stock transfer or transfer posting consists of a goods issue from the issuing point and a goods receipt at the receiving point. For all transfer postings and stock transfers, the goods issue and goods receipt can be posted together in one entry step.

For some stock transfers, you have the additional option of entering the GI and GR in two separate steps and, therefore, in two separate postings. In the case of storage location-to-storage location and plant-to-plant stock transfers, a distinction is made between the one-step procedure and the two-step procedure.

The one-step procedure has the advantage that you have to enter only a single transaction in the system. However, the two-step procedure enables you to monitor stocks that you are in the process of transferring from one place to another. Once you have posted the GI from the issuing point, the stock is regarded as in transfer at the receiving point, and is treated as such in the system.

A stock transfer from one storage location to another is carried out within a plant. You can post a storage location-to-storage location stock transfer using the one-step procedure for all stock types.

• One item for the removal of the material from storage (GI) at the issuing storage location
• One item for the placement of the material in storage (GR) at the receiving storage location

No accounting document is generated for a stock transfer storage location-to-storage location, because both the material and the plant (and therefore the valuation area) remain the same.