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[Alan Lord <alanslists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm trying to find the best way to solve a particular issue with a BoM 
and products with various UoMs...

I buy Ham by the Kg (Weight)
I buy Bread in Loaves (Unit/EA)
I buy Butter in 1kg packs (Unit/EA)

I want to have a BoM for a Sandwich.

My Bom needs to consist of the following items:

Bread - 2 slices
Butter - 15g
Ham - 1 slice

Looking on the current trunk system it seems to me that the only way to 
do this is to create rather convoluted and *product specific* UoMs to 
cater for the above.

Is this the right way? It seems a bit daft.

I would have thought that the "Invoice products in a different unit of 
measure than the sale order" setting would, if it could be extended to 
cover internal moves (BoMs) as well is just customer invoicing would be 
a more sensible approach. Otherwise I could end up with many, many UoM 
configurations that are only there to support a single product.

Or perhaps I am missing something?

TIA

Al

That is not the real scenario - it just seemed a better example. In the 
real case we buy Angle Iron in 6.1m and other fixed lengths (as far as 
the supplier is concerned that is a unit/PCE) then I use in different 
BoMs at various lengths such as 40.6m and 13.8m.