Stock Transport Orders were originally designed to work between plants in the same enterprise. Stock Transport Order Collaboration is designed to work between a plant in the Buyer’s enterprise and a business partner. Businesses often have scenarios where stock they own needs to be transported to a business partner. Or, stock they own that is currently located at a business partner needs to be transported back to one of their own plants.
For example, when a business is involved in Subcontracting, it is common that stock owned by the business is located at the Subcontractor’s plant or location. In cases like this, Stock Transport Order Collaboration can be used to transport stock between a business’s plant and a business partner.
In order to take advantage of the feature of moving stock between business partners, we will need to create a Plant in our SAP System that represents the business partner. We call this a Virtual Plant. The Virtual Plant exists in the SAP System but it represents the business partner. When a business creates a Stock Transport Order that involves a Virtual Plant, they are able to transport stock to or from the business partner and even between two external business partners.
Watch the following video to learn more about Virtual Plants.
