Reg: Negative Stock

[Former Member]

Hii,

How does negative stocks works in SAP, here in Material Master for a selected material in plant 1000 and SL 0001, i have checked on negative stock option in Plant/ Storage 2 view.

while issuing the stock in MIGO, it is not allowing and it is givng an error with deficit qty not allowed.

Can u pls guide me, how does it should make it work.

Thanks

Regards,

Muralidharan

[Former Member]

Hi Muralidharan,

Likely your storage has negative stocks in valuation area.

Try this. Use MMPV. Key in the company code, indicate the period and fiscal year (i.e. 03/2008) and check on the radio button "Check and close period" and check both the boxes below for "Allow neg. qties in prev per." and "Allow neg. vals in prev. per".

Hit execute.

This should solve the problem with the issuing of goods in MIGO with negative stocks in valuation area.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you are able to solve the problem.

Rgds.

[former_member459660]

Hi muralidharan ,

A negative stock occurs when you post a goods issue(GI) witha quantity that is larger than the book inventory.Negative stock balances may be required if,for organizational reasons,you enter goods issue before the coreesponding goods receipts,and the material is already physically located in the warehouse.Negative stocks always indicate that physical movments have to be entered in the system at the later stage.

So that you can work with negative stock inSAP system,you have to specifically allow this in customizing for the affected material.In Customizing for inventory mangerment,you will find the settings for negative stock under Goods issue/Transfer postings>Allow Negative stocks..The path for this is

SPRO>Materials mangement>Inventory management and physical inventory>Goods issue/Transfer postings>Allow negative stocks

Negative stocks are allowed at valuation area level and storage location level.At plant level,you can set the special stocks for which negative stocks is allowed.

For example the special stocks for which negative stock is allowed are

>Vendor consignment

>Stock of material provided to vendor

>Consignment stock at customer

>Sales order stock

>Project stock

>Returnable packaging with customer

>Returnable transport packaging

If you have negative stock for a material ,this is shown in the material master record on the accounting view,the plant stock view,and the storage location stock view.The negative stock is also displayed in the stock lists.

To determine for which materials you have negative stocks,use the warehouse stock for material report.From SAP Easy acess screen,choose Logistics>Materials management>Inventory management>Environment>Stock>Warehouse stock(MB52)

You can execute the selection,for example,for several materials for a storage location that allows negative stocks.So that only the materials with negative stocks are displayed,choose the Only display negative stocks indicator on the selection screen.

Hope this will help you

Reward if useful

Thanks and Regards

SHYAM.R

[Former Member]

Hi Muralidharan Iyengar

That will work only in that case when you have material in Quality stock or Blocked stock means you can transfer that material to your Unrestricted used stock meaning thereby that you have material in your premise and after getting clear the material you can issue that material to Production or Cost Centre

Thanks