Use the Unit of Weight Maintenance window to enter and maintain units of weight abbreviations that you will use in the Inventory and also the Purchasing and Receiving applications. The most frequently used units of weight are already set up for you. You can add new units of weight or modify the existing units of weight in order to meet your business needs.
A maximum of 18 units of weight can be included in the Unit of Weight Maintenance window.
The system uses pounds as the standard weight to which all other weights will be converted. On purchase orders, the system uses information from this grid to convert the weight of an item to pounds. Pounds is the first weight found in the grid. The total weight of the purchase order is calculated in pounds. Do not change or delete the first units of weight entry, pounds, in the grid.
For example, if the unit of weight for an item is 8 OZ (eight ounces), the system divides the number of ounces (8) by 16 to calculate the number of pounds (.5).
The units of weight 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 weight dialog, type the Unit of weight code, Description, Operator (if required, the default is * for multiply), and the Conversion Factor.
For field help definitions, click here.
Click OK.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each unit of weight you are adding. Then click Cancel.
Click to highlight the information you want to change. Type the new information.
Click Change.
Click the unit of weight code that you want to delete. This highlights the line in the grid.
Click Delete.
Click Yes.