The first thing I would suggest doing is searching for previous discussions in the mailing list archives, I can't help but feel that the uom topic has been discussed at least a million times (maybe more).
Regards Scott On 8/04/2010, at 12:11 PM, Bob Morley wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good reason why the InventoryItem (and many other > entities) that deal with quantities does not have a Uom? I referenced the > Data Model Resource Book volume 1 and even though it says that an Inventory > Item could represent 100 reams of ... it only stores the 100 as the quantity > not the reams. > > This is important for us because we will model a raw material of "gold" > which can be purchased/sold in ounces or pennyweight (I think that is what > she said). While a particular enterprise may select a standard unit of > measure, they could certainly create POs from suppliers that use a different > Uom. One would think that Ofbiz would handle this and use the UomConversion > entity to do the conversion when it creates the InventoryItemDetail records. > > Anyone have any opinions? This would be quite a large change so I don't > want to bite this off at this moment, but I could capture any resolution > into a JIRA for future considerations. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/InventoryItem-QOH-ATP-missing-Unit-of-Measure-tp1777324p1777324.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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