How You Request Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

For items with dual UOMs, create requisitions in the same UOM that you use to pack and ship it and in the UOM that's different from the UOM that you use to price and invoice the item.

You can use the UI to create requisitions for items with dual UOMs, and use the requisition import to create internally managed requisitions for items with dual UOMs. You can also use the requisition import (FBDI or Purchase Request Web Service) to create externally managed requisitions for items with dual UOMs.

When you create a requisition using the UI, Purchase Request web service or file-based data import (FBDI), you don't have to provide a quantity in two units of measure for dual UOM controlled items. You can provide either the ordering UOM quantity or the secondary UOM quantity, and the transaction will be automatically tracked in both UOMs based on the UOM conversion rules.

After opting in to the Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM feature, you can use dual units of measure to:

• Track the item in a UOM that's different from the UOM that you use to stock the item. For example, use the primary UOM, Cases, to track the quantity that your customer orders, and use the secondary UOM, Pounds, to track the secondary quantity that you price and ship.

• Create requisition lines, using the UI or requisition import, in two units of measure: ordered and secondary.

• Charge the right price to your purchase requests based on the actual quantity shipped in secondary UOM using blanket purchase agreements.

• Process invoices for the purchase order line based on the actual units received in the secondary UOM of the item.