Changing UOM

Hi Experts,
I want to change the UOM of few materials.
I have already followed these steps but having a issue.
Checked the stock through MARD and MMBE - No stocks
Deleted all the open PRs/open POs and reservations.
Now when I try to change, system allowed to change the UOM for 3 materials but its still throwing error "Stock still exist in plant" for other two materials in MM02. I rechecked there is no stock for this material in any storage location.
what could be the reason?
Regards,
Senthil
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Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jun 27, 2011 12:53 PM

Hi,
You should not change base unit of measurement as system will have transactions( PO, GR,SO,GI) already.You can maintaion alternative unit of measurement.
For more check the link:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SI/UnitofMeasurerelatedsettingsinSAP
Regards,
Biju K

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> Hi Jurgen,
>
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