Issue UOM other than LUOM or BUOM.

What work arounds do you use to handle issuing in a UOM other than Lowest UOM or Buy UOM? An example is bandaids. Buy UOM is by case of 2000 and the lowest uom is by ea. They are issued by box of 100. When it is received it goes into the inventory as 2000 ea which causes confusion for the requestor. If they enter 1 only 1 ea is issued. I have entered an enhancement request under Enhancement Request 104258. Infor had recommended taking out ea and using box as the lower uom but that messes with our cost reporting when comparing product cost. I was hoping to get the UOM into the inventory by the transaction uom that is set in IC12. We have many products that have a middle uom. If you experience this, I would appreciate your endorsement to that enhancement.

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dechevar

You can use the field Qty of Stock UOM to distinguish your cost reporting while building the item at the BX UOM as the Stock Keeping UOM. Your Band Aids would be built as BX = 1; CA = 20 with Qty of Stock UOM = 100 on the Main tab of the item master.

unknown

But there isn't 1/BX so why would we want the system to list that anywhere?

dechevar

That is what the Qty of Stock UOM field is for. It lets you know there are 100 in the box

rmontgomery

We have done that on a couple of items (i.e. exam gloves) but it also causes confusion when the requester doesn't know the quantity per box or pack. When it says box of 1, it makes it harder to determine the each cost. It really doesn't make sense that Lawson doesn't have the capability to add it to inventory by the middle uom such as box.

gtesche

I think maybe the easier request of Infor would be make Qty of Stock UOM amount visible to requesters.

rmontgomery

I will have to dig into that. Are you referring to the stock UOM on the main screen in IC11? Our system only lets that be set to the lowest UOM such as ea unless we omit that from the set up and make Bx as the lowest uom as you mentioned. Did I misunderstand something?

dechevar

In FSM, they can now cycle count in the Transaction UOM so they will not be as impacted by the EA level.

rmontgomery

I will get into the manuals and see how this works. I guess I am confused how I could use that for cost reporting by the each if the each quantity per case are not built into the item master. We have never used the Qty of Stock UOM. Thanks for the information.

dechevar

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