Item Category "U" in Intercompany Stock Transport Order

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

Your expert advise on the below functionality is needed..

Scenario:

Intercompany STO, Document Type : NB , Delivery Type : NLCC

In the Source List, Intercompany Vendor and the Supplying Plant is maintained. Also i have made the Source list relevant for MRP.

MRP is run for the material, SAP generates PR(Document Type NB) with Item Category "U" -Stock Transfer.

I am getting error message when creating PO with reference to this PR, as Standard PO document type NB does not have link to Item Category "U - Stock Transfer".

For Intercompany STO, Item Category should be blank, I am not sure why SAP generates PR with Item Category "U".

If i do not maintain the Source List and generate PR it is created with Item category as blank. Then i am able to manually assign the Source of supply.

Kindly let me, what needs to be done to generate PR for Intercompany STO in MRP without Item Category "U' in it.

Regards,

Hemant

[csaba_szommer · Accepted solution]

Hi,

SAP creates the requisition with item category "U" even in case of cross-company (intercompany) purchase requisition.

When converting it to PO the item category becomes blank - as I tried and I got no error message.

Please check your settings under SPRO > MM > Purchasing > Purchase Order > Define Document Types (V_T161). You will see (if standard settings have not been changed) that NB requisition type with "U" item category is allowed for NB purchase order type with " " (empty) item category.

Regards,

Csaba

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Csaba,

Thanks for information.. You are right, the Standard SAP assignment was missing,once i maintained the assignment for the NB document type of PO it is working fine..

Regards,

Hemant

[Former Member]

Hi

Please remove the Supplying plant in the source list, Your intercompnay vendor is similar to an external vendor, so no requiremnt of maintaining this and ensure that you are not maintaining any specail procuremnt key - Stocktransport in the material master.

Your PR will not generated with itemcategory U.

Thanks & Regards

Kishore

[Former Member]

Kishore,

In the source list, when I input the Intercompany Vendor, system automatically populates the supplying Plant. There is no way to input the Intercompany Vendor in the source list without the supplying plant being populated automatically.

Regards,

Hemant

[Former Member]

Hi,

STO doing company code to company code that time u suppose to use document type NB,Delivery type NLCC, need not require to select item category U for stock tranfer unit,

when delivery type select NLCC item category should take blank this scenario used only for inter company code,

[Former Member]

Hi,

My question is not about the manual creation of Intercompany STO,i can leave item Category blank if I create PO manually. But the my scenario is creating Intercompany STO PO from the PR generated by SAP.

When SAP generates PR for the material it automatically brings the Item Category as "U". We cannot manually change the Item category to blank for all the PR created for this material.

Regards,

Hemant

[Former Member]

Hi,

Create a STO in ME27 .

Item category "U" is mandatory for stock transfer, without the Item category you cannot create a STO.

If the item category is blank then it is a std P.O not STO

Regards

G.Ganesh Kumar