Hi,
I am currently setting up articles for a project and I am unsure how to handle the UOM properly.
The base article is a bottle, which can be in a box of 6 bottles and on a pallet with 20 boxes (each with 6 bottles).
The easiest way is to create the article with sales UOM of 1 piece, 1 box (with 6 bottles) and 1 pallet (with 120 bottles).
The issues I have are:
- The article is manufactured based on pallets (the whole process is based on producing 1 pallet at a time). The BOM for a pallet currently contains: 120 bottles, 120 ltr of some liquid, 20 cardboard boxes, and 1 pallet. If I set the BOM for a pallet I still can create single bottles. However, this should not be possible, especially because the BOM contains 1 pallet which does not make sense to split for 1/120th of a pallet, meaning 1 bottle.
- Different UOM of the article do have different article numbers, e.g. 1 bottle has article no. ABC-B, a box has ABC-O, and a pallet has ABC-X. As far as I see there is some customizing required to add this into the UOM table.
- If a customer orders a single bottle, the pallet is broken into smaller units (breakbulk) during picking. For this we would need the UOM directly at the article as far as I see.
- In addition, all pallets are tagged with SSCCs. This could be done with packet numbers at the article as far as I see.
Can someone give me a good advice how to handle this within BC without too much customization?
Thank you!
Hilmar
