New Movement types (Urgent)

Question

Hi Gurus,
Why do we need new movement types? Could you give few examples?
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Thanks
kk

Answer 1

Hi,
new movement types are normally required for accounting reasons and not normally for MM reasons.
One example is the write-off movement type. The standard movement type is linked to the GL that is used by the account modifier allocated to that movement type and so whenever we use the standard write-off (scrap) movement for a material at a plant it will ALWAYS post to the same account (as long as the material and plant are the same).
But what if we want to use a different account for the same material plant combination, depending on WHY we are writing it off?
For example, if we drop the item during the process and damage it ourselves then we want to use a "loss account" that will capture the cost of this accident. But if we open the box and find that the item has been stolen, or was damaged by the vendor, we would wnat to write it off to a different account.
So we could add two new movement types, Write-off (stolen), Write-off (vendors defect) etc.
So basically wherever we want to have extra flexibility over which GL is used in standard situations we can use additional movement types (linked to different account modifiers) to achieve this.
I have not really ever seen a GENUINE need for a totally new movement type for anything other than financial reasons. After all you will not suddenly have a different type of movement in MM, they haev all been covered byu the standard (and if they haven't, then this is probably deliberate).
I did once have to generate a new movement type that would update "in-transit" stock but this was for a very special purpose and it is not one that I would ever recommend.
I hope this helps a bit?
Steve B