SAP Movement Types

When you enter goods movement in the MIGO transaction or any other transaction dealing with material documents, you need to specify SAP Movement Types. SAP movement type is a three-character key which differentiates various material movements, e.g. Goods Receipt, Goods Issue or Transfer Posting.

SAP movement types has controlling functionality in SAP. They play the main role in account determination as well. For example, the movement type 101 used for Goods Receipt is configured to post accounting documents on the stock account as debit and GR/IR account as credit, whereas the movement type 201 used for Goods Issue is configured to post accounting documents on the stock account as credit and the cost center account as debit, and so on.

SAP movement types also control the screen of the MIGO transaction. Every movement type has a specific automatic set of screens behind. So, when you use different SAP movement types, different types of screens appear in the transaction MIGO. SAP movement types can also influence message determination.

Furthermore, SAP movement types can be used with a Special Stock Indicator. For example, in Consignment Order, we use the movement type 201 with a special indicator K for consignment to perform goods issue to a cost center. It is also a classification key indicating the type of material movement (for example, goods receipt, goods issue, physical stock transfer).

SAP movement types enables the SAP system to find predefined posting rules determining how the accounts of the financial accounting module (stock and consumption accounts) are to be posted and how the stock fields in the material master record are to be updated.

Standard SAP Movement Types

The following table mentions the most commonly used SAP movement types in Materials Management module (H = Credit, S = Debit in Accounting Effect column).

Movement Type	Description	Accounting Effect	Movement Type	Description	Accounting Effect
101	GR goods receipt	S	412	TF own to own rev.	–
102	Reversal of GR	H	501	GR without reference to PO	S
122	RE return to vendor	H	502	GR without reference to PO rev.	H
123	RE rtrn vendor rev.	S	511	Free of charge	S
161	GR returns	H	512	Free of charge rev.	H
162	GR rtrns reversal	S	551	GI scrapping	H
201	GI for cost center	H	552	RE scrapping	S
202	RE for cost center	S	561	Initial Entry of Stock Balances	S
221	GI for project	H	562	Initial Entry of Stock Balances rev.	H
222	RE for project	S	601	GD goods issue: delvy	H
261	GI for Order	H	602	RE goods deliv. rev.	S
262	GI for Order rev.	S	641	TF to stock in trans.	–
311	TR Slc to Slc in one step	–	642	TR to stock in trans.	–
312	TR Slc to Slc in one step rev.	–	651	GD ret.del. returns	H
321	TF quality to unrest	–	652	GD ret.del. retn rev	S
322	TR quality to unrest reversal	–	701	GR phys.inv.: whse	S
343	TF blocked to unre.	–	702	GI phys.inv.: whse	H
344	TR blocked to unre.	–	703	GR phys.inv: QI	S
349	TF blocked to qual.	–	704	GI phys.inv: QI	H
350	TR blocked to qual.	–	707	GR phys.inv.:blocked	S
411	TF own to own	–	708	GI phys.inv.:blocked	H

Purpose of SAP Movement Types

Movement Type: 101 is used for Goods Receipt against Purchase Order.

Movement Type: 102 is Reversal of Material Document created with Movement type: 101.

Movement Type: 122 is used to Return goods to Vendor.

Movement Type: 123 is used when movement 122 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 161 is used when you return goods to vendor against a Purchase Order for unknown reasons.

Movement Type: 162 is used when movement 161 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 201 is used to do Goods Issue against Cost Center.

Movement Type: 202 is used when movement 201 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 221 is used to do Goods Issue against Projects.

Movement Type: 222 is used when movement 221 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 261 is used to do Goods Issue against Order.

Movement Type: 262 is used when movement 261 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 311 is used to do Transfer Posting between Storage Locations in One Step.

Movement Type: 312 is used when movement 311 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 321 is used to Transfer Goods From Quality to UnRestricted Stock.

Movement Type: 322 is used to Transfer Goods From UnRestricted Stock to Quality.

Movement Type: 343 is used to Transfer Goods From Blocked to UnRestricted Stock.

Movement Type: 344 is used to Transfer Goods From UnRestricted Stock to Blocked.

Movement Type: 349 is used to Transfer Goods From Blocked to Quality Stock.

Movement Type: 350 is used to Transfer Goods From Quality Stock to Blocked.

Movement Type: 411 is used to do Transfer Own Stock to Own.

Movement Type: 412 is used when movement 411 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 501 is used to do Goods Receipt without Purchase Order.

Movement Type: 502 is used when movement 501 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 511 is used to do Free of Charge Goods Receipt.

Movement Type: 512 is used when movement 511 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 551 is used to do Goods Issue for Scrapping.

Movement Type: 552 is used when movement 551 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 561 is used for initial entry of stock (e.g., in SAP implementation project).

Movement Type: 562 is used for reversal of initial entry of stock.

Movement Type: 601 is used to do Goods Issue against Delivery.

Movement Type: 602 is used when movement 601 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 641 is used to Transfer Goods to Stock in Transit.

Movement Type: 642 is used when movement 642 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 651 is used For Return Delivery of Goods

Movement Type: 652 is used when movement 651 document is cancelled.

Movement Type: 701 is used to do Goods Receipt against Physical Inventory in Unrestricted.

Movement Type: 702 is used to do Goods Issue against Physical Inventory in Unrestricted.

Movement Type: 703 is used to do Goods Receipt against Physical Inventory in Quality Inspection.

Movement Type: 704 is used to do Goods Issue against Physical Inventory in Quality Inspection.

Movement Type: 707 is used to do Goods Receipt against Physical Inventory in Blocked Stock.

Movement Type: 708 is used to do Goods Issue against Physical Inventory in Blocked Stock.

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