Supply Chain › Units & Packaging
Item Units
Every unit one item may be transacted in, and what each is worth in the item’s stocking unit. This is what a purchase order line’s unit picker reads.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Master Data
- Section: Units & Packaging
- Screen: Item Units
Address in the console: /scm/item-units
List · 11 columns · 22 fields on its form · 3 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Name | Text | item_name |
| Unit | Code | uom_code |
| In stocking units | Number | quantity_in_stock_uom |
| Stocking | Yes or no | is_stock_uom |
| Buying | Yes or no | is_purchase_uom |
| Selling | Yes or no | is_sales_uom |
| Gross kg | Number | gross_weight_kg |
| Volume L | Number | volume_l |
| GTIN | Code | gtin |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Item required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Unit required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Worth this many stocking units required | Number | A pallet of 1,440 each is 1440. Everything is stored at stocking grain and every document remembers what was actually typed. | |
| This is the stocking unit | Yes or no | ||
| Offered when buying | Yes or no | ||
| Offered when selling | Yes or no | ||
| Offered when issuing to production | Yes or no | ||
| Totalled in this unit on reports | Yes or no | ||
| Gross weight of one (kg) | Number | Of ONE of these. A case and a pallet of the same thing weigh very different amounts, and the load builder needs the one being shipped. | |
| Net weight of one (kg) | Number | ||
| Length (mm) | Number | ||
| Width (mm) | Number | ||
| Height (mm) | Number | ||
| Volume (L) | Number | ||
| GTIN | Text | The barcode for this pack size specifically. | |
| Packed in | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Freight class | Choice | Looked up from existing records | The single biggest driver of an LTL rate. Class 50 and class 500 differ by a factor of five on the same pallet. |
| HS code | Text | What a customs entry classifies it under. | |
| Country of origin | Text | ||
| Minimum order quantity | Number | ||
| Order multiple | Number | ||
| Active | Yes or no |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.