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.
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