Units of Measure form

Sage ERP Accpac Inventory Control 6.0

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$image\field_bt.gif$ Units of Measure Form

This form lets you:

Add the units of measure (UOMs) in which buy, sell, price, and stock your inventory items.

Inventory Control lets you define all of your units of measure in a single place so you can add them more easily to item records.

Units of measure can be numbers of items, dry measures, liquid measures, or weights. You can add all of your stocking units and multiples of stocking units to the Units Of Measure form, and then choose the group of units you need for each item you add.

Note: You can choose in the I/C Options form whether to allow only the units of measure that you define here in inventory records. If you do not choose Only Use Defined UOM, you can use other units of measure with items.

To add a unit of measure

If units of measure have already been added to the Units Of Measure form, you will have to press the Insert key to start a new line.

Specify:

The unit of measure.
The default conversion factor between the stocking unit of measure and this unit of measure.

This is a default conversion factor. You can change it when you add units of measure to item records.

Stocking unit of measure

One of the units of measure assigned to each inventory item is the item’s stocking unit of measure. The stocking unit of measure is important in Inventory Control for the following reasons:

Inventory Control uses it to report stock levels for the item. (Note that different items can use different stocking units.)
If you did not select the Allow Fractional Quantities option in the I/C Options form, the stocking unit is the smallest unit of measure that you can specify for shipping or selling the item. All other units of measure for an item are based upon the stocking unit of measure.
The conversion factor for a stocking unit of measure is always 1.

Before adding units of measure

Decide on your stocking units for each inventory item.

Remember: If you did not select the Allow Fractional Quantities option in the I/C Options form, the stocking unit is the smallest unit of measure that you can specify for shipping or selling the item.

Calculate the conversion factors between the stocking units of measure and additional units.
Choose what to call each of the units of measure. The names you use appear on data entry screens.