Define Units of Measure
The seventh step is to set up details of the units of measure you want to use in the system sizing calculations. In practice, you may want to set up these details before you define the warehouses.
1 Use Alternate Unit of Measure Maintenance (4.5.1) to define the alternate units of measure you want to use for sizing calculations for inventory and location capacities.
2 Use UM Group Maintenance (4.5.5) to set up groups of related units of measure, with specified conversion factors between the different units. A UM group can then be attached to an item, with all the relevant conversion factors already defined. This step is optional.
3 Use UM Conversion Generation (4.5.10) to attach the conversion factors for UM groups to selected ranges of items. This step is optional.
Note: Defining UM groups helps to simplify the process of defining the conversion factors and assigning them to items. The system does not use the UM groups other than to generate the conversion factors in UM Conversion Generation.