Intercompany Stock Transport Orders - Inventory Revaluation & GATP

We have intercompany STOs setup using PO document type NB, using the two-step setup, with delivery and billing document/invoice.
The issues we are having is APO-GATP and FI/MM related:
1) FI/MM Issue: Because of the long transit times (6 - 8 weeks in-transit), if the inventory is revalued/recosted after the PGI and before the GR, the difference in the inventory value (between the PGI-643 and the GR-101) ends up being posted to a Price Difference account. Our Finance department then has to manually identify these postings, and make the necessary adjustments or re-posting to the Inventory Revaluation account.
2) APO-GATP Issue: We are currently investigating the possible solution of changing this to a one-step setup, and add some kind of user exit or enhancement so that the PGI will also trigger the GR, but the inventory will be received into blocked stock instead of unrestricted stock. We want the inventory that is in-transit, to NOT be available to GATP. Then, when the inventory actually arrives at the destination plant, we will post a MB1B movement type 344 into unrestricted stock. This solution may work if the blocked stock does not get revalued when we post a MB1B mvmt type 344 (we will have to test this out).
If anyone has come across similar issues as I have attempted to describe above and implemented a solution, or has any ideas or suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.
Thank you.

DB49,
Yes, we normally revalue our inventory annually, so this issue would be confined to a 6-8 week period when inventory is in-transit. I believe part of the issue with the price differences, is also related to foreign currency exchange rates (different company code currencies), but I'm not the FI expert either, just been asked to "look into" this issue.
Another possible scenario is to setup another plant in the receiving company code, with one-step STO, so the inventory will be received into this new plant when it is PGI'ed from the sourcing plant. Then, create a UB STO from this plant to the destination plant (same company code), which will require another posting when the inventory actually arrives. There is a lot of master data setup for this (lots of materials and lots of company codes/plants combination), and it will still cause problems for the Logistics people. Maybe this is something they can do during "that time of the year" when the inventory will be revalued. It will still require master data setup though.
I'm aware that there is no "ideal" solution for this. Whatever proposal we come up with, one group is going to end up with the extra workload to take the burden off the other group.
Thanks for responding so quickly.

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