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Table of Contents

Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 2
Configuration ........................................................................................................................ 2
Create a new Stock Transport Order type........................................................................................2
Create a new stock transport delivery type .....................................................................................3
Activate stock transport between storage locations ........................................................................5
Assign delivery type and checking rule according to storage location ...............................................6
Define shipping data between storage locations .............................................................................7
Define rule to determine shipping point..........................................................................................8
Assign shipping points according to storage location .......................................................................8
Remove Distribution Profile from Site Master .................................................................................9

Test Scenario ....................................................................................................................... 10

Introduction
Some time back we discussed about how we can setup stock transport orders in SAP. Click here to read
that document. Similarly, its very often requested by certain customers to setup stock transport orders
to move stock between storage locations within same plant.
For example, lets say you have two buildings in same physical location and those were configured as two
different storage locations under one plant (Site) in SAP. If you want to move goods between one building
to the other (mean in SAP it has to be one storage location to the other), you have 2 ways of handling it
in SAP.
1. You can do an inventory transport posting between storage location to storage location
2. You can use the stock transport order process between two storage locations
Today we will see how we can setup stock transport order process between two storage locations in SAP
FMS. Since I am using SAP FMS, some setting might be different from what you have seen in standard SAP
(R/3).

Configuration
Create a new Stock Transport Order type
This is an optional entry. If you dont want to create your own PO type to distinguish your STOs between
intra company plant to plant vs. Storage location to storage location, you can use the PO type UB for
this purpose. Since I want to make is cleaner, I will create a new STO type for this purpose.
IMG Path:

Copy PO type NB and create your own PO type for this purpose.

You should have item category U under allowed item categories for that PO type

Save your new PO type

Create a new stock transport delivery type


Similar to above, you can also create your own delivery type to differentiate normal intra company STO
deliveries from storage location to storage location STO deliveries. However, this is an optional setup. You
can also use the standard SAP delivered STO delivery type NL for this purpose.
IMG Path:

Copy delivery type NL and create your own delivery type (Eg: ZASL)

Activate stock transport between storage locations


Under below IMG path, you need to activate stock transport between storage locations. This is a client
level global setting in SAP.
IMG Path:

Mark the below check box

Assign delivery type and checking rule according to storage location


Under this IMG path, you need to assign your ATP checking rule and the delivery types associated with
your STO type.
IMG Path:

Enter purchasing document category F and press enter key

Based on my business scenario, I need to specify my issuing site as AW02 and issuing storage locations
will be both AW01 and AW02 as I am planning to move stock between both sides. You also need to
specify your STO type and the delivery type associated with it.

Define shipping data between storage locations


Under this IMG path, you need to specify how your vendor, sales area should be determining in the
subsequent STO deliveries, etc.
IMG Path:

Maintain below

Define rule to determine shipping point


Since we are planning to move stock between storage locations, we need to have our shipping point
determination also at the storage location level. Under this IMG path, you can setup how your STO
delivery type should determine the shipping point.
IMG Path:

Change your STO delivery type to have Storage location dependent shipping point
determination

Assign shipping points according to storage location


Since we have setup our shipping point determination according to storage location, now its required to
setup the shipping point determination based on those 2 storage locations.
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IMG Path:

Maintain shipping point determination based on those 2 storage locations as below

Above mentioned configuration is all what you need for STO between storage location.
However, if youre in IS-Retail environment or SAP FMS (Fashion Management Solution), there is one more
important setting that you need to check.

Remove Distribution Profile from Site Master


If the distribution profile is specified in the site master, the issuing storage location cannot be entered in
the STO PO line item manually.
Please refer below OSS note on this topic.

1763873 - Field 'Issuing Storage Location' in STO is grayed out


1826705 - Purchase order field status issuing storage location (RESLO) cannot be customized via
Field Selection Key

Transaction: WB02

Enter your reference DC and go inside

Go to Purchasing / Distribution tab and set below field blank

Save

Test Scenario
From article AW11001; I do not have any stock available in storage location AW02 under DC AW02.
I only have Retail Inventory - 10 (Stock Segment - RTL) and wholesale inventory - 100 (Stock Segment WHS) in stock.
Im going to move quantity 3 from article AW11001 RTL stock segment from storage location
AW01 to storage location AW02

Initial stock situation

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Transaction: RWBE

Create a new STO with below data


o Supplying Site - AW02
o Issuing storage location - AW01
o Receiving storage location - AW02

Transaction: ME21N

Save the STO

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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Note to remember:
As I have shown below; in the standard system, the Issuing Storage Location field is not getting copied
to all sub items (variant line items) automatically. I have to manually enter it in each variant items.

However, based on the OSS note: 1000328 - Issuing storage location is not copied to the sub items;
below customizing setting will solve this issue.
Transaction: SM30

Maintain the table TMSI3 and click on


Enter below entry and save

button

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Now if you create a new STO, you will notice that Issuing storage location is automatically copied to all
variant items without any issue.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As I mentioned above, if your site is having a distribution profile assigned, you will not be able to select
the issuing storage location manually.
STO # - 4500000684

Since my DCs are allocation relevant (Please note that this is a FMS specific functionality, which
was inherited from IS AFS), I need to run allocation for this STO

Transaction: ARUN

Specify below and execute

Save the allocation results

Now we need to create the STO delivery

Transaction: VL10B

Enter your STO number and execute

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Select the line and click on Background button

Click on LOG button to see the details

It will open a new SAP window and show below.

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Click on the Documents button to see the delivery number

Delivery # - 80000418

Now by clicking Display document button, you can go to VL03N transaction


As shown below, you will be able to see above configured data appear in the STO delivery

Do pick and PGI


Now if you look at the stock overview (Transaction: RWBE), you will see that stock is now
appearing under In transit stock type

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Do goods receipt for that STO

Transaction: MIGO

Click on Post button


Now if you look at the stock overview, you will see that stock is now appearing under storage
location AW02

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