Use the Unit of Measure Codes form to maintain all units of measure that can be associated with an item. Transactions can then be tracked in various units. A base unit of measure is assigned to each item on the Items form.
If you do not have existing units of measure already defined in SyteLine, we recommend that you use ISO U/M codes (available through the drop-down menu on theU/M field) when defining new units of measure.
If you already have custom U/Ms defined and referenced elsewhere in the system, you cannot delete or modify them, for data consistency. However, when integrating SyteLine to other BOD-enabled applications, only the ISO U/M codes may be used. In order to make this work, you can map any existing custom U/M codes to the predefined ISO U/Ms, using theUnit of Measure Codes form.
You can map multiple U/Ms to the same ISO U/M code. This is acceptable if you already have existing custom U/M codes used in transactions stored in the database. For example, you might map the following:
| U/M | Description | ISO U/M |
|---|---|---|
| DOZ | Dozen | DZ |
| DZ | Dozen | DZ |
However, if you do this, the system will choose only one of the U/M code descriptions to display in Business Object Documents (BODs). So if you have mapped multiple descriptions to one ISO code in error, the BOD may include an incorrect U/M description. For example:
| U/M | Description | ISO U/M |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | Milliliter per Second | 40 |
| 41 | Milliliter per Minute | 40 |
Creating units of measure and unit of measure conversion records