A transfer transaction goes through a transfer process: You create a transfer transaction, ship the merchandise, receive the merchandise at the To-store, complete the transfer transaction. Where the transfer is at in the process can be determined by the transfer status code. The status code also indicates which figures (fields) are updated in the From-store and the To-store.
The status codes are R (request), S (shipped), and C (complete). For details about each status code, click here.
How you actually complete the transfer process is up to you. You can complete each phase separately, moving through the three status codes one step at a time. This approach allows for the actual process and the time involved to request, pick, ship, and receive the transfer merchandise.
Another approach is to do an express transfer, by changing the status code to shipped, or even complete, immediately after creating the transfer. With this approach you don't wait for the actual process (for the merchandise to be picked, shipped, and received at the To-store).
With either approach, a transfer transaction always starts as a request. Then you change the transfer to shipped and then to complete. Or, from request you change the transfer directly to complete.
If you go from a transfer request directly to complete, skipping the S (shipped) status, the inventory updates that are normally done with the S status are done when you change the status to complete.
If a mistake is made (for example, the From-store picks and sends the wrong merchandise or the merchandise arrives damaged) it can be corrected. To do this you'll create a "transfer adjustment" document. Like a transfer document, transfer adjustments also have the same three status codes (R, S, and C). Usually you'll take the express approach with transfer adjustments, changing them from R to C as soon as you create them.