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:

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.

Process

This scenario is based on the following assumptions:

The customer quotation and the sale of the vehicle to the customer take place in an external system.
The VSS sales process is used for the transfer between company codes, not standard transfer posting functions. In other words, the vehicle must be sold from one company code to the other by means of a VSS vehicle order. This is for reasons of flexibility in pricing By using the VSS sales process, the dealers can decide on the sales price themselves
Before the salespersons telephone each other, the sale between the company codes has already taken place. In other words, the vehicle cannot be sold to the customer before it has been transferred between company codes.
1. A customer decides on the required vehicle.
2. Salesperson B discovers that the vehicles assigned to plant B and company code B do not coincide with the customer's requirements. However, another vehicle in plant A and company code A fulfills the customer's requirements.
3. Salesperson B telephones salesperson A to make a deal.
  Settling of the balance of the internal order in company code A is carried out manually by using transaction codes KO02 (Change Internal Order) and KO88 (Data Transfer for Order Master Data).
4. Salesperson A, company code A sells the vehicle to salesperson B, company code B by means of a VSS vehicle order.
  The system executes VMS interlinking action QVTC (Transfer Between Company Codes), which contains the following elementary/primary actions:
  - QCOS Check Balance of Internal Order
  - QCIO Create Internal Order
  - QIOG Group Internal Order
  - QISV Initialize Vehicle Status
5. Salesperson A creates a sales order and thus also the ensuing billing documents.

Note

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.

Result

The 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.

Note

You can check that the transfer posting has taken place by:

Checking that the company-specific data has changed
Viewing the vehicle history to check that a new internal order has been created, in other words, that a vehicle posting has taken place.

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