All About Consignment Process in SAP SD

Consignment Process is where product are stored at the customer location but the owner of this product is still company. Customer stores the consignment stock at their own a warehouse. Customer can consume product from warehouse at any time and customer billed for product for actually quantity consumes. In Consignment Stock Processing, there are four main transactions in the SAP System, all of which support separate management of stock:

• Consignment Fill-Up (Stock Fill up at warehouse).
• Consignment Issue (Stock issue from warehouse).
• Consignment Return (Stock return from customer).
• Consignment Pickup (Stock return to manufacture).

Consignment Fill-Up

Consignment Fill-Up is a process, in which  company store product at customer sites and still company  is the owner of this product. This process is  known as consignment fill up (CF). Sales order type for consignment filling is – KB.

In consignment fill up only order and delivery takes place.

Step 1) Create Consignment Fill Up

1. Enter T-code VA01 in the command field.
2. Enter Order type CF(consignment fill up).
3. Enter sales area in organizational data.

Step 2)

1. Enter PO number.
2. Enter PO Date.
3. Enter Order Quantity.

Step 3)

Click on save  button.

A message as below is displayed.

Consignment Issue

The customer can access product at any time to sell or their use  from  their warehouse and company will issue invoices for only accessed product,  and this invoices known as the consignment issue  (CI). Sales order type for consignment issue is – KE.

In consignment Issue Order, Delivery and Invoices take place.

Step 1)

1. Enter T-code VA01 in command field.
2. Enter order type CI (Consignment issue).
3. Enter Sales area data in Organizational data block.

Step 2)

1. Enter Sold-To party / Ship-to Party / PO number.
2. Enter PO Date.
3. Enter Material and ordered quantity.

Step 3) Click on save  button.

Consignment Return

If customer return product due to damage ,poor quality, expiry, then  this process is called consignment return (CONR).  Consignment return happens after consignment issue. i.e customer can return Consignment product, the product are issued to customer by Consignment issue process. Sales order type for consignment issue is – KA.

In consignment Return Order, Delivery, Invoices  and Credit for return take place.

Step 1)

1. Enter T-code VA01 in command field.
2. Enter order type CONR(Consignment Returns).
3. Enter Sales area data in Organizational Data block.

Step 2)

1. Enter Sold-to Party / Ship-to party.
2. Enter Order reason.
3. Enter Material and ordered quantity.

Step 3)

Click on save  button.

Consignment Pickup

When a customer request to the company ,to take back the product, the company will pack this product from customer sites, this process is known as Consignment Pickup (CP). In consignment pickup process , product are not issued to customer and only stored at customer warehouse as consignment stock.  Sales order type for consignment issue is – KR.

In consignment Pickup  Order,Return Delivery  takes place.

Step 1)

1. Enter T-code VA01 in command field.
2. Enter Order type CP(Consignment pickup).
3. Enter Sales Area data in Organizational Data block.

Step 2)

1. Enter Sold-to Party / Ship-to party.
2. Enter Order reason.
3. Enter Material and ordered quantity.

Step 3)

Click on save  button.

Summary

Here are the Sales order Types

• Consignment fillup (CF) = KB
• Consignment Issue (CI) = KE
• Consignment Returns (CONR) = KR
• Consignment pickup (CP) = KA