Your stock, outside your walls

The plant total answers neither ownership nor location on its own. Beside May’s 11,000 inside units sit 380 of yours at subcontractors, 120 on trucks between plants, and 640 consignment units you hold but do not own yet.

RuleTrack every special stock state as a first-class number: consignment on site, your stock at subcontractors, and stock in transit, each valued and aged.

Nevertrust the plant total to describe what you own. The 11,000 on hand excludes your material sitting at vendors and on trucks, and includes nothing you hold on consignment.

Ownership and location are different questions. The plant total answers neither on its own.

◆ The states, 31 Mayowned outside, held inside.

Special stock state	Units
Your material at subcontractors	380
Stock in transit between plants	120
Owned, outside the walls	500

Held, not owned	Units
Vendor consignment on site	640

The 500 owned units sit outside the overview’s 11,000 because they are outside the plant; the 640 consignment units sit inside the building and off the book until withdrawal. Both belong in the month-end story next to the plant figure. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ The number that does not existdelivered views do not total this.

MB54 lists consignment by vendor and MBLB lists subcontractor stock, but no delivered view adds your outside units together, values them, and ages them. The subcontractor pile is the classic blind spot: practitioner-reported as the stock nobody counts, at the partner with the least incentive to mention it.

◆ The withdrawal cutoffconsignment bites at month end.

Consignment becomes yours, and payable, at withdrawal. Withdrawals posted late shift liability across the month boundary, so the reconciliation between the consignment report and the vendor’s settlement is a standing month-end task, not an annual surprise.

Use case

Problem

Owned stock at subcontractors goes uncounted for years, transit units float unaged, and consignment liability lands in whichever month the postings drifted to.

What we build

Special stock states landed beside the movement history: outside units totalled, valued, and aged; consignment withdrawals reconciled to settlements.

What you get

The whole ownership picture: what is yours outside the walls, what is inside but not yours, and month ends that stop being negotiations.

When did anyone last count stock at your subcontractors?

We build the outside-the-walls view that ages it.

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Terms on this page

SAP: The vendor. Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing.
HANA: SAP’s in-memory database, the platform S/4 runs on.
MM: Materials Management, the purchasing and inventory module.
special stock: Stock in a state the plant total does not describe: consignment, subcontract, transit.
vendor consignment: Vendor-owned material on your site, payable at withdrawal.
MB54: The delivered consignment list, by vendor, not totalled or aged.
MBLB: The delivered subcontractor stock list, same limits.