Invoice Matching – Different UOM than Purchase Order – Secondary unit of measure can be used on Invo

Summary

Is it possible to create invoices utilizing the secondary Unit of Measure of the items? or it’s mandatory to send the invoice with the same primary UOM that the Purchase Order was Created?

Content

Our client is on in the process of implementing EDI + cXML PO-Match invoices for several Vendors.

A recurring scenario is that several Invoices are sent by the vendors on a different Unit of Measure than the Purchase Order.

On their current system they handle dual UOM, below a typical scenario

• Purchase Order is created with Unit of Measure “Cases” - Secondary UOM is pounds. Where 1 case = 4.8 pounds