Use the Unit of Measure Maintenance window to enter and maintain units of measure abbreviations that you will use in the Inventory and also the Purchasing and Receiving applications. The most frequently used units of measure are already set up for you. You can add new units of measure or modify the existing units of measure in order to meet your business needs.
A maximum of 98 units of measure can be included in the Unit of Measure Maintenance window.
The first unit of measure in the grid is EA (each). This is the default that the system will use when you add items in the Inventory Maintenance window. When adding items, the unit(s) of measure you associate with an item must exist in the Units of Measure Maintenance window.
The units of measure are maintained in a grid. To learn more about working with views and grids, click here.
Click one of the following to take you to the procedure steps:
Click Add.
In the Add unit of measure dialog, type the unit of measure code, number of decimal places (if required), and the description.
For field help definitions, click here.
Click OK.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each unit of measure you are adding. Then click Cancel.
If you had the Inventory Maintenance window open while you were adding the new unit of measure (UOM), you must close and reopen Inventory Maintenance before you can add the new UOM to an item.
Click to highlight the information you want to change. Type the new information.
Click Change.
Click the unit of measure code that you want to delete. This highlights the line in the grid.
Click Delete.
Click Yes.