A friend of mine recently started at an organization that just went live with NAV 2017.
His team has a big concern on the way the consultant’s setup the base Unit of Measure.
His company sells quarts of milk. 10 quarts = 1 Case and there are 946 milliliters in a quart.
They also sell boxes of pancake mix which are 16 oz. or 453 grams. 10 boxes = 1 case.
These are just two of many other products that are sold.
The NAV consultants recommended and set up all the items in lowest unit of measure (gram/lbs/ oz) even though the company would never buy / sell or want it displayed in this unit. The requirement was to see all of their items in cases during receipt, pick, put away, ship, and invoice – all pages. This is a high-volume distribution business.
After go-live, there was so much confusion in the items being displayed as 400,000 grams or 1.2 M oz., that they hired a developer to modify many of the screens and reports to display the purchase or sales unit of measure.
Here are my questions:
1. How would you have setup the base UoM?
2. Is there a way to change the base UoM back to boxes and cases and how extensive would this process be ?
Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you in advance for your help.
