Associating Items with UOMs

You set up relationships between items and UOMs at both the SetID level and the business unit level.

To associate items with UOMs:

1. Establish UOMs for the SetID.

   Define UOMs on the Units of Measure page, which you access from the Set Up Financials/Supply Chain - Common Definitions menu. All UOMs must be defined here before they are available anywhere else in the system.

2. Define the standard UOM for each item within the SetID.

   Using the Define Item - General: Common page, assign each item a standard UOM that reflects the item's most common UOM.

   WARNING:

   To minimize rounding discrepancies when using multiple UOMs, use the smallest valid unit of measure for the item as the standard UOM.

3. Define additional UOMs for each item within the SetID.

   Using the Units of Measure page, which you access from the Define Items menu, define valid UOMs for ordering, stocking, and shipping each item. As part of this definition, identify the default stocking UOM, specify conversion rates between the standard UOM and the additional UOMs, and set up quantity precision rules for use in system calculations.

   For each UOM, define corresponding stocking and shipping parameters on the UOM Weight/Volume page. To access this page, click the UOM Weight/Volume link on the Units of Measure page, which you access from the Define Items menu.

4. Define any UOM attributes that vary according to business unit.

   Define a standard pack UOM on the Define Item - Inventory: Shipping/Handling page. This is the only UOM that you define at the business unit level rather than at the SetID level.

   If stocking, ordering, and shipping UOMs and their corresponding stocking and shipping parameters differ according to the business unit, define this information on the Define Business Unit Item - Inventory: Weight/Volume page.