diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products.rst b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products.rst index 5fc914161..75a8068c7 100644 --- a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products.rst +++ b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products.rst @@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ Products products/pricelist products/reordering products/temporary_reordering - products/uom diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom.rst b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 97e22fbbe..000000000 --- a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,113 +0,0 @@ -========================= -Purchase units of measure -========================= - -When you purchase a product, it may happen that your vendor uses a different unit of measure than -when it is sold. This can cause confusion between sales and purchase representatives. It is also -time-consuming to convert measures manually every time. With Odoo, you can configure your product -once and let Odoo handle the conversion. - -Consider the following examples: - -#. You purchase orange juice from an American vendor, and they use **gallons**. However, your - customers are European and use **liters**. - -#. You buy curtains from a vendor in the form of **rolls** and you sell pieces of the rolls to your - customers using **square meters**. - -Enable units of measure -======================= - -Open your Sales app and go to :menuselection:`Configuration --> Settings`. Under Product Catalog, -enable *Units of Measure*. - -.. image:: uom/uom-enable-option.png - :align: center - :alt: Enable the units of measure option in Odoo Sales - -Specify sales and purchase units of measure -=========================================== - -Standard units of measure -------------------------- - -A variety of units of measure are available by default in your database. Each belongs to one of the -five pre-configured units of measure categories: *Length / Distance*, *Unit*, *Volume*, *Weight* and -*Working Time*. - -.. tip:: - You can create your new units of measure and units of measure categories (see next section). - -To specify different units of measures for sales and purchases, open the Purchase app and go to -:menuselection:`Products --> Products`. Create a product or select an existing one. Under the -product's *General Information* tab, first select the *Unit of Measure* to be used for sales (as -well as for other apps such as inventory). Then, select the *Purchase Unit of Measure* to be used -for purchases. - -Back to the first example, if you purchase orange juice from your vendor in **gallons** and sell it -to your customers in **liters**, first select *L* (liters) as the *Unit of Measure*, and *gal (US)* -(gallons) as the *Purchase Unit of Measure*, then click on *Save*. - -.. image:: uom/uom-product-configuration.png - :align: center - :alt: Configure a product's units of measure in Odoo - -Create new units of measure and units of measure categories ------------------------------------------------------------ - -Sometimes you need to create your own units and categories, either because the measure is not -pre-configured in Odoo or because the units do not relate with each other (e.g. kilos and -centimeters). - -If you take the second example where you buy curtains from a vendor in the form of **rolls** and you -sell pieces of the rolls using **square meters**, you need to create a new *Units of Measure -Category* in order to relate both units of measure. - -To do so, go to :menuselection:`Configuration --> Units of Measure Categories`. Click on *Create* -and name the category. - -.. image:: uom/uom-new-category.png - :align: center - :alt: Create a new units of measure category in Odoo Purchase - -The next step is to create the two units of measures. To do so, click into the :guilabel:`Unit of -Measure Category` field and enter a name for the category. Then, under the :guilabel:`Units of -Measure` tab, click :guilabel:`Add a line`. - -First, create the unit of measure used as the reference point for converting to other units of -measure inside the category. Name the unit, and select the units of measure category you just -created. For the *Type*, select *Reference Unit of Measure for this category type*. Enter the -*Rounding Precision* you would like to use. The quantity computed by Odoo is always a multiple of -this value. - -In the example, as you cannot purchase less than 1 roll and won't use fractions of a roll as a unit -of measure, you can enter 1. - -.. image:: uom/uom-new-reference-unit.png - :align: center - :alt: Create a new reference unit of measure in Odoo Purchase - -.. note:: If you use a *Rounding Precision* inferior to 0.01, a warning message might appear stating - that it is higher than the *Decimal Accuracy* and that it might cause inconsistencies. If you - wish to use a *Rounding Precision* lower than 0.01, first activate the :ref:`developer mode - `, then go to :menuselection:`Settings --> Technical --> Database Structure --> - Decimal Accuracy`, select *Product Unit of Measure* and edit *Digits* accordingly. For example, - if you want to use a rounding precision of 0.00001, set *Digits* to 5. - -Next, create a second unit of measure, name it, and select the same units of measure category as -your reference unit. As *Type*, select *Smaller* or *Bigger than the reference Unit of Measure*, -depending on your situation. - -As the curtain roll equals to 100 square meters, you should select *Smaller*. - -Next, you need to enter the *Ratio* between your reference unit and the second one. If the second -unit is smaller, the *Ratio* should be greater than 1. If the second unit is larger, the ratio -should be smaller than 1. - -For your curtain roll, the ratio should be set to 100. - -You can now configure your product just as you would using Odoo's standard units of measure. - -.. image:: uom/uom-product-configuration-new-units.png - :align: center - :alt: Set a product's units of measure using your own units in Odoo Purchase diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-enable-option.png b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-enable-option.png deleted file mode 100644 index 944720c85..000000000 Binary files a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-enable-option.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-new-category.png b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-new-category.png deleted file mode 100644 index 3d2c8923c..000000000 Binary files a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-new-category.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-new-reference-unit.png b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-new-reference-unit.png deleted file mode 100644 index d2cca03d2..000000000 Binary files a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-new-reference-unit.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-product-configuration-new-units.png b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-product-configuration-new-units.png deleted file mode 100644 index 3af7c9c20..000000000 Binary files a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-product-configuration-new-units.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-product-configuration.png b/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-product-configuration.png deleted file mode 100644 index fe80c2f13..000000000 Binary files a/content/applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom/uom-product-configuration.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/redirects/18.0.txt b/redirects/18.0.txt index e4d3b411f..e64040eac 100644 --- a/redirects/18.0.txt +++ b/redirects/18.0.txt @@ -7,3 +7,7 @@ applications/finance/accounting/payments/internal_transfers.rst applications/fin # applications/point of sale content/applications/sales/point_of_sale/payment_methods/terminals/vantiv.rst content/applications/sales/point_of_sale/payment_methods/terminals.rst + +# applications/inventory_and_mrp + +applications/inventory_and_mrp/purchase/products/uom.rst applications/inventory_and_mrp/inventory/product_management/configure/uom.rst