Procurement process starts with gathering requirements and ends with procuring goods from vendors. Once goods are procured from vendor they need to be placed in company’s premises in correct place so that they can be consumed when required. This introduces the term known as inventory management. Inventory management deals with placing and handling stock received from vendors in correct place within company’s premises. The key points about inventory management are as follows:
  • Inventory management deals with management of stock either on value or quantity basis.
  • Planning, entry and keeping records of all goods movement comes under inventory management.
  • Goods movement will create a document that will update all stock quantity and value in inventory that is known as material document.
  • Material document will be referred by a document number and document year.
Inventory management deal with the following terms which are as follows:
  • Movement Type
  • Goods Receipt
  • Reservation
  • Goods Issue

Movement Type

Movement type describes the type of stock posting in inventory. It represents the posting in stock is due to which type of order like whether stock is posted against goods receipt or goods issue. The important movement types in sap mm are as follows:
  • 101 - Goods receipt for purchase order or order
  • 103 - Goods receipt for purchase order into GR blocked stock
  • 201 - Goods issue for a cost centre
  • 261 - Goods issue for an order
  • 301 - Transfer posting plant to plant in one step
  • 305 - Transfer posting plant to plant in two steps - placement in storage
  • 311 - Transfer posting storage location to storage location in one step
  • 313 - Stock transfer storage locations to storage location in two steps - removal from storage.
Movement types can be reached out by following the below steps:
Path to reach Movement Type:
Logistics => Materials Management => Inventory Management => Goods Movement => Goods Movement (MIGO)
TCode: MIGO



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