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1 Managing Special Stocks (MM-IM) Special Stocks (MM-IM) SAP AG2 April 2001 Copyright Copyright 2001 SAP AG. All rights part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purposewithout the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be changedwithout prior software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary softwarecomponents of other software , WINDOWS , NT , EXCEL , Word , PowerPoint and SQL Server are registeredtrademarks ofMicrosoft , DB2 , OS/2 , DB2/6000 , Parallel Sysplex , MVS/ESA , RS/6000 , AIX , S/390 ,AS/400 , OS/390 , and OS/400 are registered trademarks of IBM is a registered trademark of ORACLE -OnLine for SAP and Informix Dynamic ServerTM are registered trademarks ofInformix Software , X/Open , OSF/1 , and Motif are registered trademarks of the Open , DHTML, XML, XHTML are trademarks or registered trademarks of W3C , World WideWeb Consortium,Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2 JAVA is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. JAVASCRIPT is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., used under license fortechnology invented and implemented by Netscape. SAP, SAP Logo, R/2, RIVA, R/3, ABAP, SAP ArchiveLink, SAP Business Workflow, WebFlow,SAP EarlyWatch, BAPI, SAPPHIRE, Management Cockpit, Logo and trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countriesall over the world. All other products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of theirrespective companies. SAP AGManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM)April 20013 IconsIconMeaningCautionExampleNoteRecomm endationSyntaxManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM) SAP AG4 April 2001 ContentsManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM)..6 Company s Own Special 7 Externally-Owned Special Procurement Types .. 13 Pricing for Consignment Stocks .. 14 Procurement of Consignment 15 Stock Movements for Consignment Material.

3 16 Posting Goods Receipts for Consignment Material .. 17 Displaying Consignment Stock .. 19 Goods Issue from Consignment Stock .. 20 Transferring Consignment 21 Transferring Consignment Material to Another Stock 22 Transferring Consignment Material Into Own Stock .. 23 Settling Consignment Liabilities .. 24 Physical Inventory of Consignment Material .. 25 Subcontracting .. 27 Subcontracting in 28 Creating a Subcontract Order .. 30 Entering Delivery Schedules ..31 Monitoring Stocks of Material Provided to 32 Subcontracting in Inventory 33 Provision of Components ..34 Providing Components With No Order 35 Providing Components for Existing Purchase Orders .. 36 Providing Materials From Another 39 Entering Goods Receipt for the Subcontract Order .. 40 Posting Subsequent Adjustment .. 41 Posting Mat. Prov. to Vendor to Other Stock Type .. 42By-Products in 43 Subcontracting for Sales Order Stock and Project Stock.

4 44 Subcontracting in Invoice Verification .. 45 Stock Transfer Using Stock Transport 48 Stock Transfer Between Plants in One 50 Stock Transfer Between Plants in Two Steps .. 51 Stock Transport Order Without 52 Stock Transport Order with Delivery via 53 Stock Transport Order with Delivery and Billing 54 Stock Transfer in Purchasing .. 56 Goods Issue for a Stock Transport Order .. 57 Posting a Goods Issue in Inventory Management .. 58 Posting a Goods Issue in Shipping .. 59 Displaying Stock in Transit .. 60 Posting a Goods Receipt for a Stock Transport Order .. 61 SAP AGManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM)April 20015 Cross-Company Stock Transfer ..62 Making the Vendor - Plant 64 Process for Stock Transport Orders that Include SD Deliveries and Billing 65 Valuation of Stock Transfers ..66 Third-Party Processing .. 67 Third-Party Processing in Sales .. 69 Third-Party Processing in Purchasing.

5 70 Third-Party Processing in Inventory Management .. 72 Third-Party Processing in Invoice 73 Returnable Transport 74 Posting Other Goods Receipts to Returnable Transport Packaging (RTP) 75 Posting Returnable Transport Packaging (RTP) Quantities at Goods Receipt for Purchase 76 Transfer Posting Between Storage 77 Displaying Returnable Transport Packaging 78 Pipeline Handling .. 79 Creating a Pipeline Material .. 81 Creating a Pipeline Info Record .. 82 Maintaining the Source List .. 83 Posting Goods Issue from the Pipeline .. 84 Settling Pipeline 85 Sales Order Stock .. 86 Project 89 Managing Special Stocks (MM-IM) SAP AGManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM)6 April 2001 Managing Special Stocks (MM-IM)DefinitionSpecial Stocks are Stocks that are managed separately as a result of their not belonging to yourcompany or being stored at a particular Stocks and Special procurement types are divided into the following areas: Consignment Subcontracting Stock transfer using stock transport order Third-party processing Returnable transport packaging Pipeline handling Sales order stock Project stockThe following sections outline the Special features of each area in the Purchasing, InventoryManagement, and Invoice Verification components.

6 SAP AGManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM)Company s Own Special StocksApril 20017 Company s Own Special StocksDefinitionStocks belonging to your company that are stored with the vendor or the the R/3 System the following types of company s own Special Stocks are available: Stock of material provided to vendor Consignment stock at customer Returnable packaging stock at customerSince these Special Stocks are not located at your own company, they are managed at plant leveland not at storage location stock types are possible: Unrestricted-use stock Quality inspection stockAll stock types can be of Material Provided to VendorThese are your company's own Stocks that you provide to the vendor (subcontractor) tomanufacture a product you have ordered. However, this stock is still your company's stock is available for Materials goods movements for materials provided to vendor are described in Subcontracting [Page27].

7 Consignment Stock at CustomerThis is consignment material belonging to your company that is stored with the customer. Thisstock is not available for materials Inventory Management, you can post the following goods movements (with reversal): Initial entry of stock balances (movement types 561, 563) Transfer posting from plant to plant in one step (301) Transfer posting from material to material (309; also refer to Entering Transfer Postings fromMaterial to Material [Ext.])Other goods movements are processed using the Sales (SD-SLS) component. See also: Managing Consignment Stocks [Ext.].Returnable Packaging Stock at CustomerThis is packaging materials or means of transport (for example, pallets or crates) which aresupplied by your company to a customer and must be returned. Returnable packaging stock isnot available for Materials Inventory Management, you can post the following goods movements (with reversal): Managing Special Stocks (MM-IM) SAP AGCompany s Own Special Stocks8 April 2001 Initial entry of stock balances (movement types 561, 563) Transfer posting from plant to plant in one step (301) Transfer posting from material to material (309; also refer to Entering Transfer Postings fromMaterial to Material [Ext.)]

8 ])Other goods movements are processed using the Sales (SD-SLS) component. See also: Managing Returnable Packaging Stock [Ext.]. SAP AGManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM)Externally-Owned Special StocksApril 20019 Externally-Owned Special StocksDefinitionExternally-owned Special Stocks belonging to a vendor or customer that are stored at the R/3 System the following types of externally-owned Special Stocks are available: Vendor consignment Returnable transport packaging Sales order stock Project stockSince these Special Stocks are located at your company, they are managed at storage Special Stocks can be allocated to three different stock types: Unrestricted-use stock Quality inspection stock Blocked stockAll stock types can be ConsignmentThis type of stock comprises consignment material belonging to the vendor that is stored on Stocks from the vendor are available for Movements for consignment Stocks from the vendor are described in the sectionConsignment [Page 13].

9 Returnable Transport Packaging (RTP)Multi-trip packaging medium (such as pallets or containers) in which goods can be transportedbetween vendors and customers. It is the property of the vendor and is therefore not included inthe customer s valuated Movements for returnable transport packaging are described in Returnable TransportPackaging [Page 74].Sales Order StockStock that is used for a sales order. It is directly allocated to a sales order. Components can onlybe used to produce material ordered by the customer and the finished product can only bedelivered to the customer via the sales order stock is explained in Sales Order Stock [Page 86]. Managing Special Stocks (MM-IM) SAP AGExternally-Owned Special Stocks10 April 2001 Project StockQuantity of a material which is held in stock for the completion of a project. The project stock isallocated to a work breakdown structure (WBS) element.

10 Components can only be withdrawn forthe WBS stock is explained in Project Stock [Page 89]. SAP AGManaging Special Stocks (MM-IM) Special Procurement TypesApril 200111 Special Procurement TypesIn standard procurement, a customer buys a material from an external vendor and the material isdelivered to the customer. Upon delivery, the goods ordered belong to the customer's Special procurement, the goods are not necessarily delivered from the vendor to the third-party processing, for example, the ordered material is delivered directly from the vendorto a customer of the customer. In stock transfer processing a material is procured internally andtransported from a storage location to the location where it is following Special procurement types exist in the R/3 System: Consignment Subcontracting Stock Transfer Using Stock Transport Order Third-Party Processing Returnable Transport Packaging Pipeline HandlingConsignmentWhen buying goods on consignment, the ordered goods still belong to the vendor, even afterdelivery.