SAP material basic unit, BOM unit, and Procurement Unit

Recently, we have encountered a headache. The company's SAP system defines that the number of decimal places for material management is three. If the first three decimal places are 0, the system will not be able to keep records. However, the BOM has a small amount of three materials (1 ~ 10000 CMM-cubic centimeter/EA), while the basic unit of materials is relatively large (CBM-cubic meter ), in the process of production and inventory management, the BOM unit needs to be converted into the basic unit of materials. After the BOM unit is converted to the basic unit, the first three digits of the decimal place are all 0, as a result, the business cannot proceed normally.

In response to the above problems, the solution I think of is the basic unit for changing materials. At the beginning, the business department determined to change the basic unit of materials to (CCM-cubic centimeter ), at the same time, the purchasing department proposes to continue using CBM as the purchasing unit. At this time, we encountered a problem. We all know that the SAP system allows the maintenance of separate procurement (Order) units, and only needs to maintain the Conversion Relationship between the procurement unit and the basic unit, however, during maintenance, the system requires that the conversion between the purchase unit and the basic unit cannot exceed 10000 times. For example:

The system help prompt is as follows:

Therefore, considering that the Conversion Relationship Between the BOM unit (in centimeters) and the purchasing unit (in cubic meters) is 1,000,000 times, the basic unit of materials must be determined as L (in ascending order ), in this way, the Conversion Relationship between the purchase unit and the basic unit can be configured to meet the needs of the procurement business, while ensuring that the business data such as reserved, transferred, and fed-in the production and inventory management process is converted to the first three decimal places after the basic unit all are zero.

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