Uom and Alternative Uses

[Former Member]

Hey experts,

Due to SAP's 5 digit limitations in Alternative UoM's, i've done the following

1 Box is the base unit.

1 Box = 25000 eaches

1 Case = 4 Boxes

The issue uom is eaches, which allows us to create Bom's using ea's instead of boxes

However the PO defaults to Boxes, when I would like it to order in Cases by default.

Is there any way of specifying this or will it always want to use boxes.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Enter the unit 'cases' in the 'order unit' field in purchasing view of material master, then the system will defalut the UOM in P.O.

Regards

Vijay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I feel stupid now, never even noticed the field. My excuse is not my usual area of specialty.

Thanks Dude

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As Jurgen said, if you have any existing purchase info records for the material, maintain the order unit value in info record master data (ME11/M12/M13) because when you create the P.O teh system will default the values from existing info record and will not conisder the material master entry.

Regards

Vijay

[JL23]

like you have a goods issue unit in your material master  you have as well an order unit in the purchasing view of a material master where you should specify your case.

if you already have an info record, then you have to maintain this order unit manually there, as it will not default from material master to existing info records.

It is in general not good to have an alternative unit in smaller pieces as the base unit, because you will get a lot rounding issues with this setup.

the quantity field can only take 3 decimals, so you can never issue 1 each if your box has 25000 each, because it will round to 0 box

[Former Member]

Production will always use multiples of 25000 ea's. Mainly in rounding values of 50000 ea's

Would this cause rounding issues??

[JL23]

no