You can use this process to post a vehicle in stock form one plant, or dealer's branch, to another plant when the plants are in different company codes. You may want to do this, for example, if a customer at plant B, company code B wants to purchase a vehicle that is currently situated at plant A, company code A. The following graphic illustrates this case:
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Prerequisites- The vehicle must be in stock before you can execute a transfer posting.
- There are no open VSS orders for the vehicle.
- The vehicle has been sold with a VSS vehicle order to the other company code.
- The balance on the internal order is zero.
ProcessThis scenario is based on the following assumptions:
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On the receiving plant side, you execute the VMS actions for creating a purchase order and creating/posting a goods receipt separately after the vehicle has been transferred between the company codes. The creation of a quotation is an optional step since the customer has already bought the vehicle.
If transport costs are involved, they can be billed by including them as an order item in the vehicle sales order.
The sales action between company codes cannot be cancelled. You would have to execute another transfer posting in the reverse direction if you wanted to undo the transfer. |
ResultThe vehicle has been transferred from plant A, company code A to plant B, company code B and can then sold to the customer from plant B, company code B.
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