Intercompany Goods Issuance

Question

Hi!
I already asked before how to perform intercompany GI. 
I got this FIRST ANSWER:   that I could use movement types 301, 303 and 305.  Can you tell me what's the difference between these three?
I also got this SECOND ANSWER: 
To set up Intercomopany process you need to do following config, 1. Go to SPRO --- MM --- Purchasing -
Purchase order -
Set up Stock Transport order 2. Firest step is to define shipping data for plants, here you have set rthe data for both the plants who are doing transaction.
    For eg. XYZ1 as supplying plant & ABC1 as receiving plant are the two plants from company code XYZ & ABC respectively
                 Set data for plant XYZ1 as give the value of sales organization for eg for XYZ company sales organization XYZS will be responsible & other data as distribution channel & division.
                  Se the data same way for plant XYZ1 also with sales area of company code XYZ.
3. Second step is to assign delivery type to supplying plant & document type that should be NLCC and as per our example it is to supplying plant XYZ1 & doc type NB.
4. Next step is optional whether you want to use one step procedure or two step procedure.
5. You need to set up master data alaso such as XYZ1 to be set up as vendor in company code ABC, one point to note is in EXTRAS from MENU BAR in ADDTIONAL DATA you need to give data retention level as plant XYZ1. 
6. You need to set up receiving plant ABC1 as customer in company code XYZ.
With this minimum requirement you can set up Intercompany process with delivery.
Process will be as follow,
1.Create Intercompany Purchase order with vendor as XYZ1 & plant as ABC1 from receiving plant.
2.Process Outbound deleivery with VL10D
3. Post Goods Issue from supplying plant.
4. Post Good receipt in receiving plant.
5. Post billing invoice VF01 from supplying company code XYZ w.r.t delivery.
6.Post Invoice receipt in receing company code.
My question is,  can I just do ANSWER 1 directly and not do ANSWER 2 anymore?  Or do I have to perform both answers?  Please tell me if these 2 answers are related.. or if I could just choose 1.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!
Regards,
Paula

Answer 1

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Angela Paula Oquendo wrote:
> Thanks!
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> Can you please explain what is a one step and a two step movement?  If I do movement type 301 in issuing supplies to the receiveing  plant,  do i need to perform anything on the receiving plant?
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> And what is an STO process?  Which is better to do,  the ANSWER 1 or ANSWER 2?
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> Thanks so much and appreciate your help.
It depends on the companies requirement which process they want to use. STO process is detailed process which has STO created through me21n, then if shipping is involved,it follows the shipping route, if shipping not involved, then there is good issue against sto then receipt and all this can be tracked through the STO POH.
301 is one step movement, which is used for plant to plant movement, where you put in supplying plant details on one side and then receiving plant details on the other side, in inter company code case, both plants are belonging to different company codes and you save the document, thus the movement takes place and reporting can only be done through MB51 report.
For two step movement, first 303 is used for goods issue from issuing plant to stock in transit, then once stock is received at receiving plant, 305 document is created which is second step, which receives the goods from stock in transit to own stock.
This process can be tracked from MB5T report when the stock is in transit and MB51 report, thus giving you detailed reporting.
Now the choice is your companies, which process they want to adopt. If your company requires detailed tracking of goods, then they follow STO process, if detailed tracking of goods is not required, then 301 or 303 can be used.
Edited by: Afshad Irani on Jul 21, 2010 9:35 AM