Hi,
it would be great if users could select one of the units of a unit group when adding a product.
Today the unit of an Opportunity Line / Quote Line is determined by the unit of the respective Price List Item. Since Unit Groups can hold calculations between units of the same type (i.e. length) it would be fairly simple to allow the user to select the unit of a Product suitable for the customer and have D365 do the calculation in the background.
Example:
Product Cable is entered in the price list item of Price List A in meters and price 10 USD / meter
In a Quote with Price List A selected a user in Asia selects 2 meters of the Cable, hence the price shall be 20 USD
In a Quote with Price List A selected a user in US selects 2 yards of the same cable, hence the price shall be 18.28 USD
In the current setup there are multiple complexities to achieve this:
- One Price List is required for each currency that we would like to quote in and for each measurement system (metric, imperial), doubling the amount of Price Lists
- if the master application for products (typically an ERP) holds the prices in metric units a calculation needs to be implemented to correctly set unit and price per unit for price lists with imperial units
Martin