Reference
SAP movement types
MM — Materials Management
Standard movement types used in inventory management, what they do to stock, and their reversal. Valuation and exact behaviour can depend on configuration.
- 101
Goods receipt for purchase order
Receive goods ordered on a PO into stock (or to consumption for account-assigned items). The same movement type also receives the output of a production or process order (PP).
Stock effect: Increases stock in the selected stock type · Reversal: 102
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 102
Reversal of goods receipt for PO
Cancel a 101 posting, e.g. after a posting error.
Stock effect: Decreases the stock originally received
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 103
Goods receipt into GR blocked stock
Record a PO receipt without accepting the goods; held on the PO, not valuated.
Stock effect: Increases GR blocked stock (no storage location) · Reversal: 104
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 105
Release from GR blocked stock
Accept goods held in GR blocked stock into a storage location, posting their value.
Stock effect: GR blocked stock → unrestricted (or quality/blocked) · Reversal: 106
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 107
Goods receipt into valuated GR blocked stock
Receive goods into GR blocked stock with the value posted at receipt; the valuated alternative to 103.
Stock effect: Increases valuated GR blocked stock (no storage location) · Reversal: 108
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 109
Release from valuated GR blocked stock
Release goods received with 107 into a storage location. No further value posting — the value was posted at 107. (105 releases 103 stock, not 107 stock.)
Stock effect: Valuated GR blocked stock → unrestricted · Reversal: 110
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 122
Return delivery to supplier
Return goods physically sent back to the supplier with reference to the GR.
Stock effect: Decreases stock
Typically valuated - 124
Return delivery from GR blocked stock
Send goods held in GR blocked stock back to the supplier.
Stock effect: Decreases GR blocked stock · Reversal: 125
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 161
Return to supplier for a returns PO item
Issue goods back to a supplier against a returns purchase order, typically via an outbound delivery.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 162
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 201
Goods issue for cost center
Consume stock and charge the cost center.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 202
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 261
Goods issue for order
Issue components to a production or maintenance order.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 262
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 301
Transfer posting plant to plant (one step)
Move stock between plants in a single posting.
Stock effect: Decreases issuing plant, increases receiving plant · Reversal: 302
Configuration dependentOpen digital twin → - 303
Removal plant to plant (two-step)
Remove stock from the issuing plant into stock in transfer of the receiving plant.
Stock effect: Issuing plant decreases; receiving plant stock in transfer increases · Reversal: 304
Configuration dependentOpen digital twin → - 305
Placement in storage plant to plant (two-step)
Place stock in transfer into the receiving storage location.
Stock effect: Stock in transfer → unrestricted in the receiving plant · Reversal: 306
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 309
Transfer posting material to material
Move stock from one material number to another (same base unit).
Stock effect: Issuing material decreases; receiving material increases · Reversal: 310
Configuration dependentOpen digital twin → - 311
Transfer posting storage location to storage location (one step)
Move stock between storage locations within a plant.
Stock effect: Moves quantity between storage locations · Reversal: 312
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 321
Transfer posting quality inspection to unrestricted
Release stock from quality inspection.
Stock effect: Quality inspection → unrestricted · Reversal: 322
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 343
Transfer posting blocked to unrestricted
Release blocked stock.
Stock effect: Blocked → unrestricted · Reversal: 344
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 344
Transfer posting unrestricted to blocked
Block stock, e.g. damaged goods (reversal of 343).
Stock effect: Unrestricted → blocked
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 349
Transfer posting blocked to quality inspection
Send blocked stock for (re-)inspection.
Stock effect: Blocked → quality inspection · Reversal: 350
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 411
Transfer posting special stock to own stock (e.g. consignment K)
Withdraw vendor consignment stock (K) into own stock, creating a liability. With special stock E, the same movement type moves sales order stock to free own stock.
Stock effect: Consignment → own unrestricted · Reversal: 412
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 501
Goods receipt without purchase order
Receive stock without a reference document (e.g. free-of-charge or exceptional receipts).
Stock effect: Increases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 502
Configuration dependentOpen digital twin → - 541
Transfer posting to stock provided to vendor (subcontracting)
Provide components to a subcontractor.
Stock effect: Unrestricted → stock with subcontractor (special stock O) · Reversal: 542
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 543
Consumption from stock provided to vendor
Automatically consumes components when the subcontracted product is received.
Stock effect: Decreases stock with subcontractor
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 551
Withdrawal for scrapping (from unrestricted)
Scrap unusable stock, expensing its value to a cost center.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 552
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 553
Scrapping from quality inspection stock
Scrap goods that failed inspection; 551 scraps from unrestricted, 555 from blocked stock.
Stock effect: Decreases quality inspection stock · Reversal: 554
Typically valuated - 641
Goods issue for stock transport order (to stock in transit)
Issue goods via outbound delivery for an STO.
Stock effect: Issuing plant decreases; receiving plant stock in transit increases · Reversal: 642
Configuration dependentOpen digital twin → - 643
Goods issue for cross-company stock transport order
Issue goods to a plant of another company code; the supplying company records a sale.
Stock effect: Decreases the supplying plant's stock · Reversal: 644
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 701
Physical inventory difference — surplus
Post more stock found at a count than the book quantity.
Stock effect: Increases unrestricted stock
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 702
Physical inventory difference — shortage
Post less stock found at a count than the book quantity.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin →
SD — Sales & Distribution
Movement types posted by SD deliveries: goods issue for a sales order (601), customer returns (651, 653) and customer consignment (631, 632, 633). Whether a movement is valuated depends on the stock type and your configuration.
- 453
Transfer posting returns stock to own stock
After inspection, move returned goods into valuated own stock so they can be sold again.
Stock effect: Blocked stock returns → unrestricted use · Reversal: 454
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 601
Goods issue for delivery (sales order)
Post goods issue for an outbound delivery, reducing stock and charging cost of goods sold.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 602
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 602
Reversal of goods issue for delivery
Cancel a 601 posting, e.g. a delivery issued in error (VL09).
Stock effect: Increases the stock originally issued
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 631
Goods issue to customer consignment (fill-up)
Move own stock to a customer's site without selling it yet.
Stock effect: Own unrestricted → consignment stock at customer (special stock W) · Reversal: 632
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 632
Consignment pick-up
Take unsold consignment stock back from the customer into own stock.
Stock effect: Consignment stock at customer → own unrestricted
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 633
Consignment issue (customer withdrawal)
Record that the customer has consumed consignment stock; this is the billable event.
Stock effect: Decreases consignment stock at customer · Reversal: 634
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 651
Goods receipt for returns delivery
Take customer returns back physically while the commercial decision is still open.
Stock effect: Increases blocked stock returns (non-valuated) · Reversal: 652
Typically not valuatedOpen digital twin → - 653
Goods receipt for returns delivery to unrestricted use
Take customer returns straight back into sellable stock, posting the value back to inventory.
Stock effect: Increases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 654
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin →
PP — Production Planning
Movement types specific to production: the repetitive-manufacturing receipt (131) and by-product receipt (531). Production orders also use 261 (component issue) and 101 (goods receipt), listed under MM.
- 131
Goods receipt for run schedule header (repetitive manufacturing)
Receive the finished product of repetitive manufacturing at backflush (MFBF), with costs collected on a product cost collector instead of an order.
Stock effect: Increases unrestricted stock of the finished product · Reversal: 132
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 132
Reversal of goods receipt for run schedule header
Cancel a 131 posting, e.g. a backflush entered with the wrong quantity.
Stock effect: Decreases the finished-product stock originally received
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 531
Goods receipt for by-product from order
Receive a secondary output of production (a by-product) into stock, crediting the order with its value.
Stock effect: Increases unrestricted stock of the by-product · Reversal: 532
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 532
Reversal of goods receipt for by-product
Cancel a 531 posting.
Stock effect: Decreases the by-product stock originally received
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin →
EWM — Extended Warehouse Management
EWM posts receipts and issues to inventory management with the MM and SD movement types (101, 311, 601); its own warehouse moves are process types, not movement types. Listed here are the inventory-difference movements it hands back (711, 712), whose use depends on configuration.
- 711
Goods issue for inventory difference (warehouse)
Write off a quantity missing at a warehouse count, once the difference has been accepted. Requires configuration validation: the movement type EWM uses is set in its posting mapping.
Stock effect: Decreases unrestricted stock · Reversal: 712
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin → - 712
Goods receipt for inventory difference (warehouse)
Book in a surplus found at a warehouse count. Requires configuration validation, as for 711.
Stock effect: Increases unrestricted stock
Typically valuatedOpen digital twin →