1. Using Procurement
  2. Considerations for Purchasing Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

Considerations for Purchasing Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

Here's the information for you to consider regarding the Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM feature:

  • Use the Product Information Management work area to set the primary UOM and the secondary UOM for the item.

  • Purchasing won't update lines on any purchase orders that already exist and will continue to price them according to the UOM on the order line.

  • This feature automatically calculates the secondary quantity from the ordered quantity. When you enter the secondary quantity in the secondary UOM for a dual UOM item, the application automatically calculates the quantity in the UOM on the order line.

  • You can price, but can't order, items in the secondary UOM. The Pricing UOM of the order line can be the secondary UOM, but the UOM of the order line can't be the secondary UOM.

  • You can't use this feature with the Purchase Order web service.

  • Close for Receiving uses the ordered UOM.

  • Close for Invoicing uses the pricing UOM.

  • If the billed quantity is greater than the received quantity for the purchase order schedule, and if you price the schedule in the secondary UOM, then you can't cancel or reduce the quantity on the schedule.

  • If you price the order line in the secondary UOM, then you can't use the order line for consignment.

  • If a configuration model or any child component uses dual units of measure, then you can't create a requisition for the configured item.

  • You can use Page Composer to expose the Secondary UOM attribute and the Secondary Quantity attribute in the search results on the Schedule tab of the Manage Orders page.

  • You can include the secondary quantity and the secondary UOM when you create an advance shipment notice (ASN), advance shipment billing notice (ASBN), and when you manage an inbound shipment.

  • If the secondary quantity received is different from the Put Away secondary quantity, you will notice an imbalance in your receiving inspection account between Cost Accounting and Receipt Accounting.

  • If you return an item, and if the secondary quantity on your return is more than the secondary quantity received, you will notice an imbalance in your receiving inspection account between Cost Accounting and Receipt Accounting.

  • The pricing UOM is available in the Purchase Order Data Model used for supplier communication. To view the pricing UOM in the purchase order PDF, add the field to the Purchase Order PDF Report template.

  • You can't include the pricing UOM in an Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) report.