Unit of measure in a purchase requisition

I want to create a purchase order using a material with two unit of measure, base unit of measure and Order unit.
I want use the Order unit in the purchase requisition but the system deletes this unit of mesure and sets the Base unit of measure.
Anybody knows what can I try to use the Order unit of material in a purchase requisition?
Thank you,

Hi Ana,
The Purchase Requisition always uses the 'Base Unit of Measure' maintained for a material in the Item Overview section.
If you want to use an alternative 'Unit of Measure' you can specify this in the 'Source of Supply' tab in Item detail. This will be the 'Unit of Measure' that is adopted into the PO when the PReq is converted. You have to also make sure that you maintain conversion factors between your UOM's.
Hope this helps,
Ravelle

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Unit of Measure Error in Purchase order

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While saving the Purchase order i am getting the Error message
"Unit of measure KG not defined for language GB."
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Display
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Unit of measure on Purchase requisition

Hello!
When I create a purchase requisiton with material master, the unit of measure comes closed, and I can't change it.
I tried to put in the material master more than one unit of measure, but the field on purchase requisiton still closed.
I tried to take off the obrigatory of the field "unit of measure" on the purchase requisition, and it doesn't work...
Somebody knows what can I do??
If are there some alternative?
Thanks!

Hi Camilla,
[You specify whether a material can be procured using differing order units of measure in the material master record or the purchasing info record.|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/75/ee0d5a55c811d189900000e8322d00/content.htm]
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Changes in Base Unit of Measure

Hi,
We got an issue,User tried to change the Base unit of Measure from NO to KG.
1.For this material we dont have stock in unrestricted and quality,But it has reservations. 2.It has got Scheduling agreement,3.This material is used In BOM.
So if i cancel reservations,then remove this item from scheduling agreement and delete it from BOM.Will it work further to change the Base Unit of Measure.
Please Do help me in this matter
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1) You can only change the base units of measure under the following circumstances
No stocks are available for the material.
There are no existing purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or scheduling agreements for the material.
At present, no purchase orders or purchase order items are being created or changed.
Item is not linked in any BOM as chield part
If requests for quotations, purchasing info records, or contracts are available for a material, the system emits a warning while changing base unit of measure. Still if you want to change unit of measure specify in a dialog box the factor for converting the base unit of measure into the new base unit of measure. The purchasing info records are then, if necessary, updated.
2) Solution
   As system is not allowing changing base unit of measure there will be either stock of this material or existing purchase document
1) If there are stocks in the previous period, you can clear them as follows:
a) Post the stock in the previous period to the current period (for example, using movement type 561) so that the stock for the previous period is the same as the stock for the current period.
b) Clear the stock with the posting date in the previous period (for example, using movement type 562).
2) If there are Open purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or scheduling agreements for the material.complete all P2P cycle for open orders (purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or scheduling agreements) and then close it.
3)Delete item from BOM
Then
1.     Run Trnx MM02 (Change Material Master immediately.
2.     Overwrite the old base unit of measure with the new one in basic data screen.
3.     Save the change.
3) System checks
If a change criterion (Trnx. code MM02) is meeting all necessary prerequisites (as mentioned in point 1).System allows changing base unit of measure. Otherwise it displays warning or error. U can display the reason for this, by choosing Display Errors (ctrl+F1)

Unit of Measure issue - Need to be changed from volume to no dimention.

Hi Experts,
           I have a unit of measure as TB, which is tube. This is a volume unit. The user want to change this as "Pls have this be corrected as a non-dimensional unit of measure ". For this what is impact on system.
          Precautions to be taken to change this unit of measure. what are all we have to do. like closing all open POs, PR, RFQ,SO , production order, planned orders etc.
          And what about the stocks for these materials which are using these UOM.
          Please suggest me, what are all we have to do, before going for a change.
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Poorna.

Dear,
The base unit of measurement for a material cannot be changed due to movements history exists. This will result to inconsistency in reports and data.
Suggested to create similar new material with new user desired UOM.
Please find the SAP HELP on this as below:
Diagnosis: You wanted to change the base unit of measure. However, you can do so only under certain circumstances, including the following:
- If there are no stocks of the material in the current period and in the previous period.
- If there are stocks in the previous period, you can clear them as follows:
a) Post the stock in the previous period to the current period (for example, using movement type 561 Posting date 30.06.XX ) so that the stock for the previous period is the same as the stock for the current period.
b) Clear the stock with the posting date in the previous period (for example, using movement type 562 Posting date 30.05.XX).
- If no purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or scheduling agreements exist for the material.
Procedure : Choose Display errors to see why you cannot change the base unit of measure for this material.
The pushbutton Display errors appears only in dialog mode, not in data transfer or in mass maintenance. If this message appears in data transfer or in mass maintenance, and you want to know why the base unit of measure cannot be changed, access the material in dialog mode using the relevant transaction below, try to change the base unit of measure as required, and then choose Display errors:
Lastly, you can considered an Alternate Unit of Measure to do the Conversion from KG to Liter. You then could use your Alternate Unit of Measure as your
Purchased UoM and PLant UoM.
Given the level of activity sometimes required to change the base UOM, it often makes more sense just to add an alternative UOM on the material master.
Maintain the relationship between the Base UOM and the new UOM on the material master and then continue to procure the material in the new UOM rather than the base UOM. If stocks exist I would think it is unlikely that their existing UOM is incorrect as they must have been receipted in that UOM at some point.
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Syed Hussain.

Unit of measure KG to ST?

Hi All,
I have on ematerial initially created with unit of measuer KG by mistake, it was really supposed to be ST.
Is there any way?
Thank You.

Hi UNP
1) You can only change the base units of measure under the following circumstances
No stocks are available for the material.
There are no existing purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or scheduling agreements for the material.
At present, no purchase orders or purchase order items are being created or changed.
If requests for quotations, purchasing info records, or contracts are available for a material, the system emits a warning while changing base unit of measure. Still if you want to change unit of measure specify in a dialog box the factor for converting the base unit of measure into the new base unit of measure. The purchasing info records are then, if necessary, updated.
   As system is not allowing changing base unit of measure there will be either stock of this material or existing purchase document
1) If there are stocks in the previous period, you can clear them as follows:
a) Post the stock in the previous period to the current period (for example, using movement type 561) so that the stock for the previous period is the same as the stock for the current period.
b) Clear the stock with the posting date in the previous period (for example, using movement type 562).
2) If there are Open purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or scheduling agreements for the material.
close open PO/PR
Then
1.     Run Trnx MM02 (Change Material Master immediately.
2.     Overwrite the old base unit of measure with the new one in basic data screen.
3.     Save the change.
3) System checks
If a change criterion (Trnx. code MM02) is meeting all necessary prerequisites (as mentioned in point 1).System allows changing base unit of measure. Otherwise it displays warning or error. U can display the reason for this, by choosing Display Errors (ctrl+F1)
This will solve ur problem
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We were creating a PO when we encountered the error which states "Unit of measure not defined for language ZH".
We executed CUNI to translate the units of measurement to our target language. System prompted "This object was segmented. Only new lines evaluated." What does this mean?
We tried creating the PO again, however we encountered the same error that the unit of measure was not defined for the language.
Please recommend action/s that we should take. Thank you.

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How can we maintain multiple sale unit of measure for a particular material in single sales area. Meaning different sales orders can have different unit of measure for the same material in the same sales area.
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Check (MM02) Material Master - Additional Data button in menu bar - Unit of Measurement Tab
OR
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1. Define ItemA with kg as the unit of measure in the Purchasing Data tab - and Gr as the sales unit of measure in Sales Data tab. Enter items per purchase unit as 1000 and the items per sales unit as 1.
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3. Generate an AR invoice with a quantity of 1, the items per purchase unit is 1 so the stock of the item is reduced by a quantity of 1 gram.
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OR
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We have a business requirement whereby the customer would like to see requisitions showing the purchase order unit of measure from the PIR, and not the base unit of measure from the material master.
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If my base unit of measure is Metres(M), and without changing the base unit of measure if i want the purchase order to pick up KG , where all do i have to do the settings like in config or Material master record. If its material master record, then where inside material master record.
My proces here starts with PR ? So how should it be done that KG is picked up in PR also.
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hi
Goto MM02
Give the material and other required data
select PURCHASING view
In General data, next to ORDER UNIT there is a Variable Purchase Order Unit
Check on that
Activation of the variable purchase order unit.
The information from the field in the material master record is adopted in the purchasing info record. In the purchase order and in the source list, you can enter an order unit that differs from the one in the purchasing info record.
If you wish to specify a different order unit for a requisition, you must assign a source with a different order unit to the requisition.
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When I create a purchase requisition, the unit taken is unit of measure. I can not modify it, and use the order unit.
When I do the purchase order based on this PR, the unit is the order unit. The order unit is well define in MM03 (display material) and ME13 (info record).
I want to use the order unit in the PR. Is it possible and how ?
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PR is an Internal Document....Ie) The users or User Department in your company are requisting the Purchase Department to arrange or Procure material or service for their purpose....that they will ask in UOM only.....they wont bother about or many cases not aware of the Order unit...
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a UOM of your choice using the List of Values.
Please Refer the following links...hope it helps you....
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_45b/helpdata/en/c6/f83bb94afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/content.htm
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/finance/training/manuals/inv_training_stores_user.pdf
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