How to link between the documents of a two step stock transfer (with movement types 303/313 and 305/315).

There is no link between the documents of a two step stock transfer (with movement types 303/313 and 305/315).

Overview:

Ø  In case of two step stock transfers without purchase order reference there is no link between the material documents.

 

Ø  The Material Document created in the first step (with the movement type 303 or 313) is not updated in any field of the Material Document posted in the second step (with the movement type 305 or 315).

 

Reason & Reproduce the Issue:

Ø  Two step transfer posting with movement types 303 and 305 or 313 and 315.

Ø  The material document of the 303/313 posting only acts as an input help for the posting with movement type 305/315, in order to save the user from entering the data manually.

Ø  The system Goods movement does not build any real link between these two postings.

Ø  In fact, the same material document of the 303/313 posting can be used many times for different 305/315 postings, as long as there is stock in transfer enough to allow the 305/315 to be saved.

Solution:

Ø  There is not any customizing setting or customer enhancement in the standard system which can make the requested link between these two goods movements (303 & 305 or 313 & 315).

Ø  In order to have the link to the reference document either the 'Document Header text' field or the 'Item Text' field can be filled with the reference Material document number. This way the information would be updated in the tables MKPF or MSEG.