Catalog items are the items that are part of a customer’s item catalog to which are used to add into inventory. UOM options explained
9.1 About Catalog Items and Supplier Catalog Items
Catalog items are the items that are part of a customer’s item catalog. Once the customer item catalog has been defined, catalog items are then provisioned to stocking locations which become an inventory item where they are assigned to an inventory location bin. The customer’s items are also mapped to supplier items which allow for reordering of items from suppliers. The supplier catalog can be defined for each specific supplier and the supplier catalog can be shared with more than once customer.
In the screenshot below, the customer item catalog resides at the company level. The “Show catalog in parent Companies” and the “Show catalog in child companies” options allow for a customer to use item catalogs from a parent or child company. This functionality allows for a customer to have a global standard item catalog that can be shared by many divisions within a company without having to duplicate the item catalog for each company.
9.1.1 Understanding Units of Measure (UOM’s)
- Each item in a company’s item catalog can have its own base UOM (this is the lowest common denominator across all Purchase and Issue UOMs)
- The item can also have a different UOM for each stocking location as long as it is a multiple of the base UOM
- UOI = Unit of Inventory (Inventory UOM in specified stocking location)
- UOP = Unit of Purchase (Purchase UOM for specified item/supplier)