How You Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

To purchase items that are priced in their secondary UOM, use the Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM feature.

You can use the feature to order a dual UOM item in the same UOM that you use to pack and ship it, and price the item in the secondary UOM. For example, order the item in the item's primary UOM, Case, and price it in the item's secondary UOM, Pounds.

Here are consideration for using the feature:

Use the UOM on the purchase order line or the item's secondary UOM to price your new order line.
Price items in the secondary UOM by specifying it as the pricing UOM, a new attribute on the order line.
Manually enter the price in the pricing UOM. Alternatively, use a blanket purchase agreement line where the item is priced in the secondary UOM, and the pricing UOM on the order line will be the item's secondary UOM.
Process the invoice for the purchase order line according to the actual quantity that you receive in the item's secondary UOM.

Here are some of the use cases and expected behavior when you use the feature.

Use Case	Expected Behavior
If you use an agreement	You can't change the UOM or pricing UOM on the order line. If the UOM on the agreement line is in the item's secondary UOM, then the UOM on the order line will be the item's primary UOM and the pricing UOM on the order line will be the item's secondary UOM. For example, if the item's primary UOM is Case, and the secondary UOM is Pounds, and the UOM on the agreement line is Pounds, then the order line's UOM is Case, and the pricing UOM on the order line is Pounds.
If you don't use an agreement	The pricing UOM value on the line defaults from the Pricing attribute in Product Information Management. You can manually change this value to the UOM on the order line or the item's secondary UOM.

Use Case

Expected Behavior

If you use an agreement

You can't change the UOM or pricing UOM on the order line.

If the UOM on the agreement line is in the item's secondary UOM, then the UOM on the order line will be the item's primary UOM and the pricing UOM on the order line will be the item's secondary UOM. For example, if the item's primary UOM is Case, and the secondary UOM is Pounds, and the UOM on the agreement line is Pounds, then the order line's UOM is Case, and the pricing UOM on the order line is Pounds.

If you don't use an agreement

The pricing UOM value on the line defaults from the Pricing attribute in Product Information Management. You can manually change this value to the UOM on the order line or the item's secondary UOM.

Note: Using the feature, you can price items in the secondary UOM, but you 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.