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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Inventory Quantity Conversions

Concept: Inventory Quantity Conversions

Stocking and Issuing Units of Measure

You can configure different item stocking and issuing units of measure (UOMs) and automatically convert transaction quantities between UOMs for inventory sites. Transaction quantity conversions:
  • Reduce manual processing when you convert required replenishment quantities into ordering quantities.
  • Enable inventory sites to use the most appropriate unit of measure.
  • Enable an inventory location to select a valid issue UOM for a stocked item and use it for requisitions and stock requests.
Workday recognizes when your UOMs accept decimal quantities when converting stocking quantities.

Requisitions

You can configure the item site to determine which issue UOMs to select on the requisition line.

Put-Aways

Workday automatically searches for put-away receipt UOM quantities and converts them as you complete your put-away transactions.
  1. We first search for the default stocking UOM, which you configure on the
    Inventory Site Options
     tab on the
    Create Purchase Item
     task. When that's unavailable, we convert the receipt quantity using the
    Default Stocking Unit of Measure
     that's set up on the individual purchase item.
  2. When the conversion doesn't complete, Workday verifies whether the receipt UOM is a valid stocking UOM. When we can't complete the conversion using a valid receipt UOM, we convert the receipt quantity into a valid
    Base Unit of Measure
     quantity.

Replenishment

You can configure Workday to convert replenishment UOMs into ordering or issuing units, enabling:
  • The supplier to recognize the ordering units.
  • The supplying site to recognize the issuing units.
  • You to establish replenishment levels and to count in the UOMs you store and transact. Your UOMs can differ from the UOMs used by the supplier or the internal supplying site.
When you convert quantities, the rounding options you configure on the
Maintain Inventory Site
 task apply when the target UOM doesn't accept decimal quantities.

Returns

You can enable customers to return items in different UOMs than originally ordered. The returned units must be equal to, or smaller than, the units originally ordered.