Prerequisites

Use

You can use this process to post a vehicle in stock from one plant, or dealer's branch, to another plant when the plants are in the same company code. You may want to do this, for example, if a customer at plant B wishes to purchase a vehicle that is currently situated at plant 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.
• No open DBM service orders exist for the vehicle.
• The sending plant and the receiving plant are in the same company code.
• There is no settlement rule in the internal order.

Process

1. A customer decides on the required vehicle.
2. Salesperson A discovers that the vehicles assigned to plant A do not coincide with the customer's requirements. However, another vehicle in plant B fulfills the customer's requirements.
3. Salesperson A telephones salesperson B to request permission to create a quotation and sell the vehicle.
4. Salesperson A assigns the customer to the vehicle. The system uses the VMS action QACU (Assign Customer DBM)to do this.
5. Salesperson A creates a quotation and shows it to the customer. The system uses the VMS action OFFE (Create Quotation) to do this.
6. The customer accepts the quotation.
7. Salesperson A creates a sales order. The system uses the VMS action QCSD (Create Sales Order DBM) to do this.
8. So that the goods movement can take place and a goods issue can be created, the interlinking action QVTP (Transfer Between Plants) has to be executed. This action contains the following primary/elementary actions:
   • QCIO Create Internal Order
   • QIOG Group Internal Order
   • QCOR Check Settlement Rules
   • QROC Transfer Costs
   • QCCV Batch and Valuation Check
   • QPGM Cross-Plant Goods Movement
   • QLIO Complete Internal Order
   • Note: You can only make changes to closed internal orders manually; there is no function to support this or to make cancellations within DBM.

Result

The vehicle has been transferred from plant A to plant B and sold to the customer from plant B.
Note: You can check that the transfer posting has taken place by:

• Displaying the vehicle master to check that the storage location and plant have changed automatically
• Viewing the vehicle history to check that a material document, internal order and follow-on documents have been created.