Unit of measure
In Arabic وحدة القياس
The unit an item is counted, bought or sold in, such as a piece, a carton or a kilo, with conversions between them.
In plain words
Distributors often buy by the carton and sell by the piece. Stock is kept in one base unit, usually the smallest, and every other unit converts to it: one carton holds 24 pieces, for example.
Conversions belong to each item. A carton of water and a carton of juice rarely hold the same number of units, so one company-wide carton does not work.
The common mistake is changing a conversion after stock has moved. Past documents were recorded under the old ratio, and the stock figure stops agreeing with them.
- Conversion
- 1 ctn = 12 bottles
- Received
- 25 ctn
- In stock
- 300 bottles
- Sold
- 40 bottles
- Left in stock
- 260 bottles (21 ctn + 8)
In Axon Suite
How Axon Suite handles it
Each item in Axon Suite holds its stock in one base unit, with its own conversions to every other unit it is traded in. A line in a unit the item has no conversion for is refused.
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