Overview of Packaging Strings

A packaging string shows the hierarchy of units that represent how an item is packaged when shipped or used by an enterprise.

A packaging string represents the UOMs involved with transactions for an item. For example, the string EA 10/BX 25/CS 40/PLT would mean 10 each in a box, 25 boxes in a case, 40 cases in a pallet. It is possible for one or more items to share the same packaging string. Packaging strings are defined and edited using the Product Information Management work area and either the Create Item or Manage Items tasks. To define packaging strings, you select units to use in the string and define the multipliers between the packaging elements.

Defining packaging strings consists of these steps:

• Selecting UOMs

• Defining Multipliers

Select UOMs

Each packaging string must begin with a base unit and must also contain the primary UOM of the item, if the primary UOM is not the base unit of the parent UOM class. Selected units must be ordered in the appropriate sequence in the shuttle control before the next step of specifying the multipliers. A packaging string can have no more than 10 elements. The only units displayed are the units of the same UOM class.

Define Multipliers

Multipliers show how many of the smaller packaging unit are in the current row for the next unit in the string. The standard conversion values, and item specific overrides, are used to show the default quantity of each row. The multiplier is calculated for you but you can modify, if needed. If you make any changes to any multiplier, you must click the Recalculate button before you can save your changes.

This table shows how the packaging string EA 10/BX 25/CS 40/PLT would appear on the Define Multipliers step:

Multiplier	Content UOM	Package UOM	Base UOM Quantity
10	Each	Box	10
25	Box	Case	250
40	Case	Pallet	10000

Using our example above, since your item has 10 Each in a Box, you would set the multiplier to a value of 10 Each equals a Box. Next, you would enter how many Box are in the next UOM, 25 Case in our example. Continue entering multipliers for each row in your string.