Goods receipt for shipment

[v_s6]

Hi All,

We have a scenario wherein our client when they buy intra/inter company have a special way of sending and receiving goods.

What they do is that when one plant is sending materials to other by 'ocean' a container is loaded with materials from multiple POs. When the container is ready a shipment number is generated and stuck onto the container. Then the receiving plant posts a GR against the shipment number thus saving a lot of time on posting GRs for several different POs. As soon as the shipment number is entered while posting GR it lists down all the materials in the container which is then only physically verified for quantity. One container may contain material from more than 10 different POs with multiple lines.

In future when they have implemented SAP these will be multiple STOs. Does anyone know of any standard SAP solution for this scenario?

Regards,

V S

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

why do you think that this process would change when using STOs?

The STO is the purchasing part. transports are usually used in the shipping plant.

the shipping plant creates the deliveries in reference to the STOs, like they do it for sales orders.

And then the deliveries can be combined into a transport. there is no difference between deliveries in reference to STO or sales oders.

And the receiving plant can post the receipt in reference to the transport.

Do you actually have any problem?

Or do you think there will be any problem?

[v_s6 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jurgen, thanks for your answer.....but can you please elaborate a bit on 'transports'. What are transports? and how are these transports combining multiple delievries? Sorry but am not aware of this functinality in sap....thanks in advance for your answer

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

sorry, I mixed terms, please read "shipments" instead of "transports", Transport is the german word for shipment

[v_s6 · Accepted solution]

thanks..this should solve the scenario

[former_member232581]

My client have almost same scenario. I think this should help you.

This scenario require two step stock transfer.

DO GI from plant for material present in PO's refering Shipment number. So only one article doc will be generated for one container which have ,material from different PO's.

Now at time of GR, use article doc instead of PO and again refer same shipment number in article slip feild.

In case of doubt please provide more details about your exact requirement.