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How To Create Unit Of Measure In Odoo

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Arunima PNov. 12, 2018

UOM in Odoo

At times, managing products in various unit of measures is vital. For instance, While you purchase products in a nation where the metric system is of application and sell it in a nation where the magnificent system is used, you should change over the units. Units of measures are an indication citing the unit used to handle a particular product. A unit of measure is assigned to all the inventory items and  must be defined. Each product will have a stocking unit of measure, sales ordering unit of measure and a purchasing unit of measure.
It is possible to Create Unit Of Measure In Odoo and set up Odoo to work with various units of measure for one product. In business the unit of measure is defined as,
“Standard unit or system of units by means of which a quantity is accounted for and expressed.”

Configuration :

Inventory →Configuration→Settings→Products

select Unit Of Measure In OdooSelect Units of Measure in Products.

Then Save changes.

After this, go to:

Inventory →Configuration →Units of Measures

Here you can see UoM Category and UoM

In UoM Category there are different categories of measurements such as volume,weight, length,etc.

different categories of measurements in UoM categoryIf you want to create new category click on create button.

create new category for Unit Of Measure In OdooFor setting unit of measure UoM in Units of Measures.

setting unit of measure UoM in Units of MeasuresHere you can see several measurements. You can also add new units of measure by clicking create button.

add new units of measureHere create a new unit of measure  gallon for category volume.

Then select a type ,There are 3 types

  • Bigger than the reference Unit of Measure.
  • Reference Unit of Measure for this category
  • Smaller than the reference Unit of Measure.

Here I choose Bigger than the reference Unit of Measure.

Then set the  ratio.

1 gallon = 3.785 liters

Suppose we have to purchase Coconut Oil with the unit of measure gallon.

Which means making purchase order in gallon and sales in liter.

In Product master we can set Unit of Measure and Purchase Unit of Measure  in Odoo.

Go to:

Master Data→Products

Select a product or create .In General Information tab set the Unit Of Measure.

In General Information tab set the Unit Of Measure

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