Alternate Unit of Measure Conversion Rule Error

We want to sell Cement by the Ton, the base unit of measure its kilograms.
But there its an error on the Material Master and the rule of conversion between Ton and Kilograms its 1 to 1.
First I try to change it then I tried to enter a new one with TNE (Metric Ton) and in both cases after I enter 1,000 on the kilogram box, SAP returns a 1 and in the bottom bar a green icon and the message: " units of measure have been verified and corrected" (translated)
Its there some menu where I can correct these conversion rules?
Thanks

Hi Carlos
We had lot of trouble with unit of measures in one of our projects.
The rule is you can't change base unit of measure untill all open objects are completed. The open objects typically are Sales Orders, production order, purchase orders, etc. If you try to chnage Base unit of measure, SAP gives you an error with list of open objects.
Second rule is it should be the smallest unit of measure if possible. For ex- you can't have base unit as Kilos and then alternate unit of measure as Grams. In this case Grams should be the smallest unit of measure.
But once all open objects are closed and Base Unit is chnaged, I have not seen any problems in the previous transactions. We have done it multiple times.
Another alternative to get out of this is, discard this material and create a new one with correct unit of measures.
Hope this helps.
Mankai

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numerator TYPE /bi0/oinumerator,
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Hi Karin,
I am also facing the same problem for alternate units of measure...i tried to access the path
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