Pack size
In Arabic حجم العبوة
Pack size is the number of base units in one pack, carton or case of an item, such as 24 bottles to a carton or 6 cans to a tray.
In plain words
Distributors buy and sell in packs, but count and cost in pieces. The pack size is the bridge between the two: it turns a receipt of 10 cartons into 240 pieces in stock, and a shop’s order for 3 trays into 18 cans picked. Get it wrong and every document that uses the pack is wrong too.
A unit of measure names the pack, such as carton; the pack size says how many base units that pack holds for one particular item. The same word can mean different quantities: a carton of water may hold 12 bottles, a carton of juice 24. So the pack size is stored per item, not per unit.
The common mistake is changing a pack size while stock is held, when a supplier moves from 24 to 20 a carton. Treat the new pack as a new unit or a new item, rather than editing the old figure under stock that was counted by it.
- 1 carton
- 24 pieces
- 1 tray
- 6 pieces
- Ordered
- 5 cartons and 3 trays
- Picked in pieces
- 138
In Axon Suite
How Axon Suite handles it
In Axon Suite conversions belong to the item, so one carton can hold 12 and another 24. Each is stored as a whole-number pair, such as 24 to 1, so rounding never creeps in.
Feature
Buy by the carton, sell by the piece
Each item keeps its stock in one base unit and has its own conversions to every other unit it is traded in. A line in cartons lands in stock as pieces, and the numbers always agree.
Open: Buy by the carton, sell by the piece