depot

[Former Member]

Dear friends

what is depot and where we can assign it

What is stock transfer order and how it actually happen

Sankalp Singhai

[Former Member]

hi

Depot is Nothing but the place from where the material is stored and supplied to the customers.(More like a warehouse but where in sales are the main activity) say for instance if a business has Plants in Chennai, Banglore, Hyderabad. now if the material is to be supplied to the customers staying in Delhi or any other place. now its a very cost and pain taking process if the material is to be supplied from any of the plants to the customer in Delhi.. for this purposes usually companies maintain Depots all accross the country depending on the Companies sturucture.. Here the Business keep or say store material in these Depots and supllies to the customers on demand or for the orders placed by customers.

there are instances when customer of Chennai places an order and wants the material to be deleiverd in some other location. depending on the place of request the business delivers the material from the depot located there or from any near by Depot.

Stock Transport Order is nothing but the Order Request placed by the Depots to the plants for the material.. this is done by ME21

for assignement and rest of the process go thru .... as explained by other forum members

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Thanx & regards.. Naren

[Former Member]

In SAP, Depot is also created as a plant. In Indian environment in CIN for Plant setting, we tick the check box to identify plant as a Depot.

To transfer Material from Plant to Depot (Stock Transfer):

http://help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/500/html/J51_IntProcSTwD_EN_IN.htm

To sell from Depot:

http://help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/500/html/J95_SaleDepot_EN_IN.htm

Regards,

Rajesh Banka

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[Former Member]

Depo we well configur as delivering plant

Whenever you need to transfer the materials from one plant to another plant belonging to one company or belonging to two company code stock transfer order is raised by the delivering company.

STO:

Transfer of goods from one location to another location,it may be between plants within the same company code or in different company code's plants.

within the company code,bet plants, receiving plant will raise the STO in Supplying/issuing plant-ME21n,

Supplying plant will deliver the goods to receiving plants , then we need to pick n post the Goods Issue-VL02n, nw when we can observe that the STO qtty will be added into receiving plant and reduced in Delievering plant.

Configure Intercompany Stock Transport Order

Material should exist in both the plants (Delivering & Ordering),

Internal customer should be assaigned to the ordering plant ( MM -> Purchasing -> Purchase Order -> Setup stock transport order -> assign the internal customer to the ordering plant and assign the Sales area of the internal customer.

Assign its Sales area to the delivering plant

Assign the document type and Delivery type NB and NLCC

Assign the Supplying plant --> Receiving Plant --> NB

Take the delivering plant and assign the sales area.

Vendor master has to be created and assaign the supply source ( Delivering Plant).

Create a puchase order ME21N ---> Save

Delivery VL10 G ---> Calculation rule (appropriate) --> Assaign the purchase order number here nt. and execute.

Select the Delivery creation line and do the back ground process.

Start the log display and see the delivery document number by the documents button

[Former Member]

Depot is actually a storage plant/godown/warehouse etc.

Whatever way you want it, it is a place where goods are stored but not manufactured.

You can assign it as a plnat to company code, it is basically a plant by origin.

STO:

Transfer of goods from one location to another location,it may be between plants within the same company code or in different company code's plants.

within the company code,bet plants,

receiving plant will raise the STO in Supplying/issuing plant-ME21n,

Supplying plant will deliver the goods to receiving plants ,

then we need to pick n post the Goods Issue-VL02n,

nw when we can observe that the STO qtty will be added into receiving plant and reduced in Delievering plant,

To do this, we need do prior customizatin in SPRO-IMG,-material should be created in both plants( receiving & Supplying)

-maintaing the stock only in supplying plant

-create a dummy customer in supplying plant's sales area(if u have one sales area, create in tat comp code n sales area)

-assign this customer number to receiving plant's details along with the sales area,

-Assign the STO doc type(UB) to Supplying plant, along with checking rule

-ASsign the Del type (NL/NLCC) to Supplying n receiving plant.

Regards

AK