Working with UOM on Fulfillment Transaction Requests

The fulfillment engine enables you to ship orders in one fulfillment request, skipping many steps in the multistep fulfillment process. In the process of completing the picking and shipping steps in the background, the fulfillment engine must choose the proper UOM for each task. The system must also convert between the different UOMs. The fulfillment engine works with these UOMs:

• Entered UOM: The UOM that you entered on the transaction request.

• Ordering UOM: The UOM entered on the material stock order or sales order line.

• Stocking UOM: The UOM used to stock the item in the PeopleSoft Inventory business unit.

  The system uses this UOM to pick stock when shipping from an unfulfilled or releasable status. If sufficient stock is not found for the stocking UOM at the designated storage location, then the transaction is set to error status unless the negative inventory feature is enabled. If shipping from a confirmed status, then the stocking UOM is used to reference a previously picked quantity when short shipping a demand line. In this case, if the quantity is not found in the stocking UOM, then the transaction is rejected.

• Shipping UOM: The UOM used to ship stock.

• Standard UOM: The base UOM established for the item ID on the Define Item - General: Common page.

When working with these different units of measure, the system uses the conversion rates entered on the Units of Measure page for the item.