LQ02 Change Stock Category

There are four types of stock categories of a material: Quality, Blocked, Customer Return
and Unrestricted.

Therere various reasons to change stock categories for both IM materials and WM
materials. To distinguish from physical material movement(which we called Stock
Transfer) we call category change Transfer Posting, also call it Posting Change in WM.
Below is the illustration of different IM movement types used by MB1B in different
business scenarios (only for IM materials posting change, DONT use this transaction to
change WM material categories). In IM level, this transfer posting is a one step process
from the aspect of SAP operation.

IM Movement Types

In WM, we use LQ02 transaction instead of MB1B. The WM movement types been used
are as below showing:

From the aspect of SAP operation, this transfer posting in WM is also one step process.
After LQ02 transaction, system will change stock category in both WM and IM level at
the same time. But from the aspect of SAP program execution, several steps are executed
by SAP program in backend (like background jobs):
Step 1: Program A with functionality similar to transaction MB1--IM level Posting
Step 2: Program B with functionality similar to transaction LT05--Create TO from PCN
***after step 1, PCN (Posting Change Notice) will be generated automatically,
and PCN always appears in a couple in 922: one positive and one negative. PCN likes
Transfer Requirement, TO converting will be based on PCN or TR always.
Step 3: Program C with functionality similar to transaction LT12--Confirm TO

Mistakenly uses MB1B in WM

Therefore for WM materials, DONT use MB1B transaction to change WM material
categories any more!!! I found lots of examples exist in production environment. From
above analysis of transaction LQ02, youre quite clear that for WM material MB1B is
only the first step. If you use MB1B transaction for WM material by accident, please
MANUALLY execute step 2(use LU04 instead of LT05, LU04 can list out open PCN)
and step 3 immediately after MB1B.

Wrong operations and Error cleaning

The typical wrong operation after MB1B is using LT01 to move quant in interim storage
type 922. As I mentioned above PCN always appears in couple (one positive and one
negative), its easily to make mistake and get fixing by the errors as below:
Error 1: Only one negative or only one positive PCN exists in your warehouse. For this
case you have to use LU02 to change PCN status to completed.
Error 2: PCN still with couple lines in 922, but error during converting TO. Its because
manually create TO to move stock already, now this PCN becomes obsolete. Use LU02 to
change PCN status to completed.

Exceptions:
Although LQ02 is an easy to use transaction, some WM transfer posting cannot be
executed in LQ02. For example SAP restricts the use of LQ02 for Bulk storage type, you
have to use MB1B transaction for Bulk storage type. And also you have to use MB1B to
change material number or change batch number, the movement type used here is 309.
After this step, you have to manually execute step 2 LU04 and step 3 LT12 (in some
warehouse posting change TO is configured to be confirmed automatically).

As mistakes may happen to any warehouse, please monitor open PCN as well as other
abnormal warehouse activities by using LL01-warehouse activity monitor. We
recommended a review frequency of LL01 twice a day or at least once a day, but of
course its your business its up to you.