Press the action buttons. Watch what happens to the Plant TOTAL VALUE versus the Storage Location quantities. Then read the FI doc panel on the right.
Plant PK01 — Karachi
Material RM-IRON-01 (Steel) @ ₨50/kg
Plant PK01
Total Quantity
1000kg
Total Value ← lives here
₨50,000
SL RAWM
600
kg
SL FNGD
200
kg
SL QHLD
200
kg
Plant PK02 (transfer target)
Total Quantity
0kg
Total Value
₨0
Internal moves (within Plant PK01)
External — stock IN
External — stock OUT
External — plant transfer
💡 What to watch: Click the two Internal moves first. Notice SL quantities change but Plant TOTAL VALUE stays the same. Then click Goods Receipt — value goes UP. Then Goods Issue — value goes DOWN. This is the whole concept.
🗄️ The database tables (live)
What SAP actually stores. Watch which rows update for each action.
MBEW — value lives here (per Plant)
material
plant
LBKUM (qty)
SALK3 (value)
VERPR (price)
RM-IRON-01
PK01
1000
50000
50
RM-IRON-01
PK02
0
0
50
MARD — quantity per Storage Location · note: NO value column!
material
plant
SL (LGORT)
LABST (qty)
RM-IRON-01
PK01
RAWM
600
RM-IRON-01
PK01
FNGD
200
RM-IRON-01
PK01
QHLD
200
🗄️ The proof: Internal moves (mvt 311) ONLY update MARD rows. MBEW is untouched, so no FI document fires. External moves (101, 261, 301) update BOTH MARD and MBEW — and MBEW updating is what triggers the FI document via OBYC.
What just happened?
Each action shows whether an FI (Finance) document was created, with the journal entry if so.