UOM Conversion Factor - Order Based

[jcramirez92]

Hi everyone!

We have an issue about UOM conversion factor for order based planning.

If we put a quantity in PAL, the unit of measure conversion factors loses some decimals in IBP. This makes that when we put 1 PAL, the conversion to its base unit is not the exactly the quantity that should be. For example:

1 PAL = 2160. The base quantity is UN, so if we save 1 PAL, the conversión will be 1/0,000462 = 2.164,5021 UN, that is, 4,562 units exceeded.

This is an important problem because these quantities are sent to ECC as purchase orders and the quantity must be equal to a PAL to not split the purchase in more than two item positions, because in ECC there is a development that group by fully PAL and the rest quantity is assigned to another position.

Has anyone seen this problem before? or knows how to facing it?

Thanks in advance.

[rmedabal · Accepted solution]

Hi Carlos,

Instead of taking 1 PAL , try to use 1000 PAL for the conversion. The issue with IBP is it can go max 6 decimals.

Please try and let me know.

Thanks

[jcramirez92]

Hi,

In order based planning area you cannot change the conversion factor manually. Because of that, we have developed a new master data (not external one) for alternative unit of mesaure, which is populated with a correct rounding on decimals via an extractor of ECC and loaded by an HCI flow.

It works, but SAP should do by standar an correct rounding because cutting the quantity at the 6th decimal gives a big error in case that the 7th decimal is a number between 5-9.