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We are facing a challenge with Business Central that has started to feel almost impossible. We have an item sold in various heights and widths. We don't want to create a new item for each dimension because the production BOM and routing are always the same for one square meter of the product. Creating millions of new items with the same structure but different dimensions would be inefficient. The items are sold in pieces, but manufactured in m².

Here’s the issue: we can define how many m² one piece represents if all variants are the same size, but they are not. For example, I need to define that 1 piece of Variant A equals 3.2 m² and 1 piece of Variant B equals 6.1 m².

 
Something like this, there is also one more example scenario:
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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 77,201 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Unit of measure conversion per product variant
    The link you gave is for Supply Chain Management, and as far as I know there is no such feature in BC.
    You can try your luck on AppSource. Or contact partners for customization.
     
    Thanks.
    ZHU
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    Valentin Castravet Profile Picture
    Valentin Castravet 25,787 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Unit of measure conversion per product variant

     Maybe I’m missing something because I don’t have all the information, but if you’re already using variants, why do you need to differentiate them again using units of measure? Variants, by definition, represent variations of an item, such as different colors, sizes, etc. For instance, your variant name or description would state the m² size such as 3.2 m² but the unit of measure would be pieces. 

    Alternatively, if your goal is to differentiate items based on units of measure,  why not set up multiple units of measure directly on the item instead of using variants?

    Valentin Castravet
    Work: Zander ERP Services
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    Mustafa Omerbegović 1,232 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Unit of measure conversion per product variant
    Hello,
     
    as I know, BC standard functionalities does not support unit of measure conversion like it is explained.
    However you can use item journal before you need to sell your item in pieces,
     
    post negative adj. on the manufactured item in m2, reduce the amount of quantity as much as necessary
    post positive adj on the item for sell with appropriate assign variant and quantity.
     
    Then you will have piece to sell.
     
    Add Variant Code file to the item journal page with personalization.
     
     
    Greetings

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