Unit Of Measurement

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

One of our customer have the following scenario in it's industry: He basically deals in sales and purchase of vaious items. For example he sometimes purchase item A in 'kilograms' and sometimes in 'metres' and even sometimes in 'pieces' and same is the case while selling the items..Now his query is whether he can maintain multiple unit of measurement for single items or not while purchase and sales both?If yes how?

[Former Member]

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Divya,

You may like to have a look at CitiXsys InventoryPro Add-on. It does manage multiple Unit of measures in purchasing and sales area.

Go to http://www.citixsys.com/

You can download Prereorded demo.

Regards

Devinder

[Former Member]

Hi Divya,

The answer to you question is as follows:

1. You have to set the purchase UOM as any one of them, like kg or piece or MT. Presume its kg.

2. For sales UOM set as pieces and in quantity set the conversion quantity for 1 pcs = how many kgs.

Then in sales order you can choose the base units column in line items to sell in kgs or pcs.

In this scenario your purcase will always be in kgs. and sale can be in kgs. or pcs.

Please remember you cannot change any of the UOM settings once any transaction is added against that item.

I hope this helps you.

Edited by: Ajit Parundekar on Oct 9, 2009 9:39 AM

[Former Member]

Hello,

The simple answer to you is Yes ... and No.

Yes - because you could have Purchase and Sales UoM and Packaging UoM available.

No - because even though you have those options, you still have only one Inventory UoM. All other UoMs have to use formula to link to this UoM. You don't really have multiple UoM by your definition freely.

Thanks,

Gordon

[Former Member]

Hi

Please refer below link

https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/smb_searchnotes/display.htm?note_langu=...

Kevin

[Former Member]

that link is not working

[Former Member]

Hi

Please refer SAP Note 883504

or

It say

Different UoM for the same Item

Symptom

Same Item as Purchase and Sales item, purchased with a certain UoM and sold with another one

Other terms

UoM, Unit of Measure, Purchase Item, Sales Item

Reason and Prerequisites

Somecustomers buy items with a certain UoM and then sell it with a different one. System does not convert the 2 different UoMs

Solution

Scenario:

BP buys ItemA in Kg and sells in Gr.

1. Define ItemA with kg as the unit of measure in the Purchasing Data tab - and Gr as the sales unit of measure in Sales Data tab. Enter items per purchase unit as 1000 and the items per sales unit as 1.

2. Generate an AP invoice with a quantity of 1, the items per purchase unit is 1000 so 1000 items enter the stock.

3. Generate an AR invoice with a quantity of 1, the items per purchase unit is 1 so the stock of the item is reduced by a quantity of 1 gram.

There is no way to indicate that the stock has been reduced by 1000kg which is equal to 1 gram.

Workaround:

1.Duplicate ItemA as Purchase Item (UoM=Kg) and Sales Item (UoM=Gr) - This means that you will have 2 items, ItemA1 and ItemA2

OR

2. Generate ItemA (both Sales and Purchase Item) by configuring UoM and Price according to the smallest UoM and perform every transaction by keeping this UoM

NB: Do not forget to define UoM in Administration - System Initialization - General Settings - Display tab - Default Weight Unit

Kevin

[Former Member]

I think this issue is to be addresses in release 8.8?