Material Type - Movement Type Link

[Former Member]

Hello,

Need you help in following scenario.

We are doing stock transfer of packing materials (with mat type - ZPKG) from one plant to another. When PGI is being done against the delivery, it takes the movement type as 601 i.e. "GD goods issue:delvy" whereas it should show the movement as 641 i.e. "TF to stck in trans." and when receiving plant would do MIGO - it should hit the stock with movement type 101.

When same activity is done for Semi Finished Goods (with mat type - ZSFG), the PGI takes proper movement type i.e. 641.

Pl. let me know whether there is any link between material type and movement type.

Thanks & Regards

Ratna

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please check the order type of your stock transport order for Packaging material viz a viz semi finished material.

I hope you might be using UB or a copy of UB for your semi finished material thats why you are getting a movment type 641 ( standard stock transfer movement type ) where as NB or a copy of NB for your packaging movement type.

Please also check the item category of the purchase order which plays a crucial role in determining the corresponding movment type.

Thanks and Regards,

[Former Member]

Hello Revi & Dilli babu,

Thanks a lot for your reply.

It helped me to find the solution.

Actually for material type - Semi Finished Goods the item category in delivery doc was 'NLN' whereas for material type - Packing Material - it was 'HUPM'. But both the materials have same item category group as 'NORM'.

While item category 'NLN' is assigned to Schedule Line Category - 'NN' which has movment type - 641, item category 'HUPM' is assigned to Schedule Line Category - 'CN' which has movment type - 601.

In both the orders the order type is UB - i.e. Stock transfer order.

Our SD person will do the setting accordingly.

Thanks again.

Regards

Ratna

[revi_wiratman]

There is no direct relationship between movement type and material type, but there is an indirect relationship between movement type used in delivery document, and the item category group used in material.

You may want to first check the item category on both delivery documents and see if they're different. Since item category drives schedule line category and schedule line category picks the movement type to be used during delivery, most likely these two materials have two different item category in delivery document. If they are indeed different, check item category group on these two materials. These item category group can be defaulted based on material type through transaction VOVA, although setting a default item category group based on material type is optional.

Revi