Fergie banks on Scholes goals
On the day the club announced record pre-tax profits of £39million, boss Ferguson is clear about the value of the 28-year-old's continental contribution.
Scholes is expected to start against the Bundesliga leaders after making an earlier than expected recovery from a hernia problem for which it had originally been feared he would face a third operation.
Scholes has hit 17 career goals in Europe's biggest competition and Ferguson saw enough hot form in his comeback at Leicester last Saturday to raise expectations of an increase in that tally in the Neckarstadion.
Ferguson said: "I thought Paul Scholes on Saturday changed the dimension of the game.
"He has had no reaction to his injury and he trained yesterday and felt fine.
"He is looking forward to tomorrow and hopefully he can give us that same dimension to our game," he said.
Ferguson has few injury concerns having travelled with his entire first team squad minus long-term absentees Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Kleberson.
Mikael Silvestre was on the plane despite a niggling knee injury and only goalkeeper Roy Carroll is a new doubt having picked up a knock in training which is set to earn Fabien Barthez a place on the bench.
United got off to a flyer in Group E with a 5-0 rout of Panathinaikos but Ferguson appreciates the size of the task against the Germans, whose only goals conceded in nine games this season came in their 2-1 defeat at Ibrox.
Ferguson added: "Stuttgart looked like they were going to beat Rangers but they lost and that is the nature of football in the Champions League.
"I think there is the emergence of a very good team in a short spell.
"Felix Magath has been buying some new players this summer and to get them straight into the Champions League is a tremendous feat. It suggests it is going to be a long night," he said.
Like Ferguson, Stuttgart boss Magath has formed the nucleus of his side around a strong youth system which is finally beginning to pay dividends.
A surprise second place in the Bundesliga last season flung them straight into the Champions League proper and in striker Kevin Kuranyi, Magath has a player labelled by German World Cup winner Rudi Voeller as another Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Ferguson could try to crack Stuttgart's defensive puzzle by playing Scholes on the right behind a forward line of van Nistelrooy and Ryan Giggs.
The big Dutchman is buzzing after bouncing back from the Highbury controversy with a clinical hat-trick in Saturday's 4-1 success at Filbert Street.
And van Nistelrooy insists that his team-mates' reaction to his costly penalty miss and the events which followed the final whistle in London proves that team spirit inside Old Trafford has never been better.
He said: "The way the players reacted to me after Arsenal was fantastic.
"I was so disappointed after the penalty miss but everyone in the dressing room helped me get over it and move on.
"For the team to do that for me was excellent. The team spirit here is fantastic and I am not just talking about the last two weeks," van Nistelrooy said.
Teenager Darren Fletcher due to sign a new contract next week is pushing for a place in midfield while Phil Neville is set to retain his starting place ahead of Eric Djemba-Djemba.
Stuttgart cruised past 1860 Munich on Saturday and have clearly not been adversely affected by a debut Champions League defeat in Glasgow which Magath labelled a "learning experience".
And having had Stuttgart watched, Ferguson is understandably in no mood for complacency either.
The United boss added: "With German teams the organisation and the determination is always going to be there and therefore I expect a very difficult game but that is the attraction of the Champions League."
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