Gross weight and volume how to be different across sales orgs

[Former Member]

We sell the same material in both the US and Brazil. The materail master basic data gross weight UOM is LB and the Volume is Cubic feet, as the US was the first implementation. Now starting our Brazil implementation we need the gross weight and volume to be KG and Cubic meters respectively flowing into all of the SD documents.

Internet searches did not turn up any ideas. What have other international companies done on this subject?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Robin,

You can simulate a test.

Tasks:

1) Login in PT language (Brazil) - preferably

2) T-code CUNI

3) Adjust the conversion of measure according your needs

4) Run a report through T-code J1B_LB03 for specific company code, branch and material.

After this, the results should appeared as expected.

Regards

Ruy Castro

[Former Member]

Hi Robin,

The Base UOM will be common across all sales organizations for a material, only the Sales unit can be maintained differently across different Sales areas.

In your example if your Sales org is 1001 for US then maintain Sales unit as LB in MM02, similarly if Sales org for brazil is 1002 maintain the sales unit as KG. When the above units are maintained any orders processed for sales org 1002 will have KG as UOM.

Make sure that the smartform output displays correct UOM depending on the sales org, so that teh order ack / packing list outputs display correct units depending on the country.

Thank you,

Arun.S

[vaibhav_kulkarni2]

Hi,

We have two units of measure. one is stock-keeping unit (Base uoM) and other is sales uom.

For Brazil, you can have separate sales uom which is dependent on plant and sales organisation/division. Further in material master, for this sales uom, you can maintain cubic meter and kg as units in additional data tab.

When you create sales order, the same units will flow automatically into order and then to delivery and billing documents.

regards,

Vaibhav

[Former Member]

Our SD and MM/Purchasing teams have asked for a little more clarification on how this would work in the SD

If the US values( gross weight as LB, volume is cubic feet) are on the basic data view of the material master and the conversion units from the CUNI tcode of LB/KG are in place, what else has to be setup so that we see KG in the Brazil sales order documents as gross weight.

Our stock keeping, sales and purchasing unit of measures are a EA(Each) for all 3. So we do not see the material master additional data conversions working but if that is where this conversion information is needed to drive into the sales or purchasing document. We do not see where in sales documents or purchasing documents we can see the weight and volume changing units of measure and converting to the KG and cubic meters.

So is the only solution is custom ABAP on the output programs and customizing the program associated with the modelo tcode J1B_LB03

[Former Member]

Hi Robin,

We are experiencing the exact same issue. We are considering adding an an enhancement to convert weight and volume in form MAAPV_SELECT which retrieves the material info from the material master during the order process. How did you resolve this?

Matt

[Former Member]

Hello Robin

Material Master holds the base Unit of Measure (UOM) and the weight/volume in some standard units, Pounds/Cubic Feet in your case.

Since the standard conversion are well known ( to SAP) I don't think you have to maintain the conversion factors.

The only point you may need is changing the Print Programs for the outputs to customers (and vendors) to convert to KGs and Cubic Meters if the sales org (Purchase Org) is Brazil.

That's my take. Hope this helps.