Units of Measure

Configuring

Units of Measure for an inventory item are defined on the Unit of Measure tab in Inventory Maintenance. On that tab the Stock Keeping Unit is the measure that you hold as quantity in stock in your warehouses. Preferably, this would be defined as the smallest unit. Then your Units Of Measure build up from there.

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As you define each level of unit of measure, Jiwa calculates how many this relates to in stock keeping units.

A unit of measure can become an inner for the next unit of measure.

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A pallet contains 24 cartons. A carton contains 6 boxes. A box contains 3 eaches. So a pallet contains 24x6x3 = 432 eaches.

Buy and/or Sell

Now you can define whether you buy or sell in these units. You might buy by the pallet, but only sell by the carton or box. Tick those fields accordingly and that’s what controls whether those units of measure are offered on a sales order or purchase order. A unit of measure can be defined as both Sell and Purchase.

In the above example, only Each, Box and Carton are available from the drop-down on the sales order lines. Pallet is not an option in sales orders.

UoM Part No.s and Barcodes

Now we can add a specific partno and/or barcode to each Unit Of Measure. Then if the user enters that partno or barcode in a sales order or purchase order Jiwa, will automatically resolve that part to the inventory part and set the quantity accordingly.

Type the UOM partno in the sales order partno field …

Jiwa automatically recognises this as the standard part, with a UOM as Box and therefore quantity of 3.

Likewise, on the purchasing side, I can still buy by the stock keeping unit. I can also buy by the Unit of Measure ticked as Purchase. I can’t buy by the units of measure not ticked as Purchase.

Then when I create a purchase order for supplier 5011 from their “Warehouse” warehouse, then the unit of measure defaults to Pallet and a quantity of 432.

I can still change the PO to use Unit of Measure of Each if I want.