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:

Prerequisites

The vehicle must be in stock before you can execute a transfer posting.
No open VSS 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

A customer decides on the required vehicle.
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.
Salesperson A telephones salesperson B to request permission to create a quotation and sell the vehicle.
Salesperson A assigns the customer to the vehicle. The system uses the VMS action QACU (Assign Customer VSS)to do this.
Salesperson A creates a quotation and shows it to the customer. The system uses the VMS action OFFE (Create Quotation) to do this.
The customer accepts the quotation.
Salesperson A creates a sales order. The system uses the VMS action QCSD (Create Sales Order VSS) to do this.
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 VSS.

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.

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