Stock Transport Order

Interview questions covered

• In designing document type configuration for cross-plant Stock Transport Orders (STOs), what settings govern whether a delivery-based or invoice-based (intercompany billing) process is used, and how do these choices affect the downstream FI-AP and FI-AR postings?
• A cross-company stock transport order has goods sitting in stock-in-transit for over 45 days. The receiving plant's physical inventory count excludes this quantity by design, but the FI-GL trial balance shows a stock-in-transit account balance that does not match the MM transit quantity report (e.g., MB5T). As the architect, how would you troubleshoot this reconciliation gap between MM and FI-GL?
• Your organization is implementing intercompany stock transport orders where goods sit in stock-in-transit for several weeks between plants. How would you design valuation classes and account determination to correctly reflect stock-in-transit value separately from unrestricted stock in each plant's balance sheet?
• A cross-company stock transport order (STO) between two plants in different company codes is not generating the expected intercompany invoice, and goods receipt at the receiving plant is posting without a corresponding FI document. How would you diagnose and correct the document type and pricing setup?
• During period-end close, your controller reports that stock-in-transit values for inter-company STOs are causing physical inventory count discrepancies and the closing balances do not reconcile between the issuing and receiving plants. How would you investigate and structure a resolution?
• What is a Stock Transport Order (STO), and how does source determination differ for an STO compared to a standard third-party purchase order?
• In a global template rollout, a client wants to use Stock Transport Orders (STOs) for intercompany services procurement where a service plant fulfills maintenance requests for another plant under a different company code. What architecture considerations apply?

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