Transfer Posting of Vehicle Between Company Codes

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 KO08 (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.

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.