Redwood: Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

Create purchase orders for dual UOM-controlled items on the Redwood page. You can 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. Also, you can enter the secondary quantity in the secondary UOM for a dual UOM item, and the application will automatically calculate the quantity in the UOM on the order line.

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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. 

  • Price items in the secondary UOM by specifying it as the pricing UOM, a new attribute on the order line.
  • 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. Alternatively, manually enter the price in the pricing UOM.

For example, order the item in the item's primary UOM, Case, and price it in the item’s secondary UOM, Pounds.

If you use an agreement, you can price the agreement line in the item's secondary UOM. 

A new line on the purchase order will get the pricing UOM from the agreement line UOM, Pounds, and will get the UOM from the item’s primary UOM, Case.

Secondary Quantity, Secondary UOM and Pricing UOM on lines table

Secondary Quantity, Secondary UOM and Pricing UOM on the Lines Table

Secondary Quantity and Secondary UOM on schedules table

Secondary Quantity and Secondary UOM on the Schedules Table

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Procurement

To use the Redwood: Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM feature, you must opt in to Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM feature. Opt into the feature to use the UOM on the purchase order line or the item's secondary UOM to price your new order line. You can't price the order line in secondary UOM if you don't opt in.

If you've already opted in, then you don't have to opt in again.

Tips And Considerations

  • If you enable this feature, you will be able to price items in the secondary UOM, but you won't be able to 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.

  • As an end user or a functional admin, you can expose the Secondary Quantity, Secondary UOM, and Pricing UOM columns for items that are dual UOM-controlled when adding lines in the Edit Purchase Order or Change Order page.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

  • View Purchase Order Work Area (PO_VIEW_PURCHASING_WORKAREA_PRIV)
  • Create Purchase Order (PO_CREATE_PURCHASE_ORDER_PRIV)
  • Create Purchase Order from Requisitions (PO_CREATE_PURCHASE_ORDER_FROM_REQUISITIONS_PRIV)
  • Change Purchase Order (PO_CHANGE_PURCHASE_ORDER_PRIV)

These privileges were available before this update.