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While already delivered by end of 2023, this is a relevant topic for Mill Products industries, and I haven't seen this being rolled out already: One of the big highlights of SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01 release is the ability to use Batch specific Unit of Measure (UoM). Our warehousing solution is used across 24 industry sectors, and in some cases (for example, pharmaceutical, chemical, steel, or paper), the composition or attributes of products vary to some degree. Now with the SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01 release, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) embedded in SAP S/4HANA, you can use batch-specific units of measure to handle these types of products throughout the entire logistics chain.
When discussing such products, it is important to make a distinction between proportion units of measure and product units of measure.
- Proportion units are used in chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries to manage active ingredients in a carrier material. What is important to note is that there we have to make a distinction between the Filling Quantity and the Contents (a.k.a. the Active Ingredients). The Filling Quantity is the Base unit of measure which is the logistical relevant unit of measure. The active ingredients meanwhile are not logistically relevant units of measure. For example, in the case of a box of juice, the Filling Quantity (and the Base unit of measure) is 1L of juice. The active ingredients (which are not logistically relevant) are the proportions of ingredients within that juice, such as 35% fruit extract, 2% acid, 30% water, etc.
- Product units are used mainly in steel, paper, wood, and textile industries to handle the fixed relationship between the number of pieces and the base unit of measure, for example, kilogram, for each batch. When talking about product unit, the Product unit of measure is counted in Pieces (e.g. 1 Piece of metal bar, or 10 Pieces of wood). The Base unit of measure on the other hand is the measure by which that material is quantified, such as weight or length. As an example, a roll of metal cord can be counted as 1 PC as Product unit of measure, but as a Base unit of measure, it can be counted as 50 meters of metal cord.
Batch-specific units of measure are used to maintain proportion units and product units for these types of products because it is not feasible to use a fixed conversion factor to convert quantities of these products into various units of measure. Instead, each batch must be given an individual conversion factor.
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