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 screen, and then choose the group of units you need for each item you add.
Note: You can choose in the I/C Options screen whether to allow only defined units of measure in inventory records. If you do not choose Only Use Defined UOM, you can use other units of measure with items.
You define units of measure using the Units of Measure screen in the I/C Setup folder.
You assign units of measure to particular items in the I/C item record.
The 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: Different items can use different stocking units.
- If you did not select
the Allow Fractional Quantities option on the I/C Options screen, 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 on the stocking unit of measure.
- The conversion factor for a stocking unit of measure is always 1.