Negative stock in storage type 916 and TO is not confirmed

[Former Member]

Outbound delivery is completed against the SO, however I see negative stock lying in storage type 916 and one more TO against the same delivery is still open.

If i try to confirm the same TO to nulify the negative stock in storage type 916 then I get an error message "Item VL216 does not exist". This is may be my PGI is completed and invoice is done.

Kindly help on to remove the negative stock from storage type 916 and to cancel the unconfirmed TO.

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

Can you explain if you are doing manual transactions or something with function modules or BAPI in this process?

This error message cannot be correct

How should the message number itself get into the variable of the item number?

Are you sure you copied the error message like you get it by SAP?

Don't do the second step first.  Before clearing the negative stock and deleting the TO you should do a root cause analysis as it is more important to prevent this from happening again.

And for this analysis you may need the data from the quant. (How to clear negative stock was discussed countless times before - please search)

How does the deliveries change log look like ?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The error message is item 900007 does not exist.

I can not even delete the TO as the corresponding delivery is completed. Even if i try to complete it then the error message is item 90004 does not exist

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I checked in the outbound delivery the item number does not exist. that is why unable to confirm TO.

What is the next step to remove stock from 916 and unconfirmed TO.

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

They were probably deleted, check the change log of the delivery, but this should not happen if the TOs are unconfirmed.

Are you involved in the process yourself? Then you could tell more about the sequence what was done, the change log of the delivery can help. Honestly, this case should not happen, so it is really important to find the root cause.

Instead of continuously  bail out the boat you should plug the leak.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I see there are two TO created against the same outbound delivery. We are using handling unit also so the items which were deleted from outbound delivery are still open in open TO. This one needs to be closed.

the strange thing is how come two TOs got created. might be possible through manual.

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

having a hand on the system I could probably find a root cause. But doing this just on a small portion of text information will probably result in a thread with more than a hundred replies and days. 

SAP Support can access your system.

You may need to contact them anyway for the deletion on transfer orders. There used to be an instruction in OSS note 1454038 - How to Cancel / Confirm a transfer order when the delivery has been deleted

But this note is currently not released, maybe it gets reworked. You may ask to get it released for you.

The negative stock has to be zeroed by creating a manual TO with LT01 and movement 999 by moving the material from your warehouse bins to the interim storage bin with the negative quantity.