Hello All,
I am wondering if anyone is using the advanced unit of measure module and how it is helping you- what kind of advantages is this giving you?
-Utah
Hi Utah,
We have this module and need it for our business.
We sell steel tube and other similar product in footage. So a customer will order 1000 feet of 20ft long tube. The part # is setup as a tube profile and we can then enter our inventory in footage and still track the pcs as well. if we have inventory it shows the total footage, unit length and pcs in our scenario. The same part number can have multiple unit length as part of the total footage, so we know if we have 5’, 10’, or 20’ lengths in inventory.
I think this module could handle many different scenarios like colors, revisions, board footage, etc
Happy to talk further offline if you need more details.
Brad
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That would be cool Brad, I am trying to see how it may help us here. I’ll message you directly.
Not to pry into the convo, but i would be interested in hearing about the benefits. Any chance we could keep it public? Our primary need is specific to allocating lengths of CONTINUOUS cable, but believe we could benefit from other areas of AUOM
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Brad, do you have the recording of the EUG presentation you did on it?
I’m interested too! We currently have all our materials set up in eaches so we have different part numbers for every gauge and length/size of stock. I can’t tell with AUOM if we would be able to add pounds and feet as additional UOMs on our existing parts or if we would have to start over from scratch with our part setup to make pounds the primary and then eaches after that? The education doesn’t really help me because I don’t have the module to look at and see how it works. I really wish Epicor still did try n’ buy.
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Based on the educational videos I don’t think you would have to start over unless there is an issue with the UOM class you chose for the primary unit of measure that the part has been using.
I’m just thinking the module wouldn’t really help us very much given our current setup. For example, if I have individual parts of steel tube in lengths of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16’, I already know the weight of each one (in part - net weight field). So adding AUOM to the setup gives us . . . what? It seems like the real advantage would be in starting over with a single part for steel tube with a primary UOM of pounds and additional UOMs for feet and eaches.
Do you have an epicweb login?
I can’t really explain it since I too am unaware of how it would REALLY help, but it seems like it was built for companies like yours.
Yeah I agree we are THE textbook case for this module -have seen the slide deck, and the embedded ed, and even had a demo from Epicor, but just not confident in how it would really work with our current setup.
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I think you set up to do what it is doing, but is your system able to measure offcuts?
Since you have already created parts for each size and done the UOM conversion for LBS to EA for each of the parts, you can effectively issue the material in “pieces” as mentioned in the slide deck instead of total lbs issued.
I think the other interesting aspect is offcuts.
Additionally this module cuts down on the amount of parts you are using/creating. Now you can have one part (steel tube) and you can see the use of the different lengths, but under one part number- not sure if that really helps with anything or not.
Other than that, this is all I am thinking you aren’t getting out of your current setup:
Offcuts/salvage
One part number instead of many.
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Sorry, I am just checking back in on this topic.
The EUG presentation I did was hosted by Fred and Calvin, so they have that recording. It should be available.
I have to believe there will be a presentation on this topic at Insights. although I haven’t looked yet.
Utah, I am onsite at one of our plants all week, so I will need to catch up with you on this next week OK?
Brad
That’s works for me! In the meantime I will try to get that recording from Fred and Calvin for everyone.
I could also set up a teams meeting for us all on here if you are comfortable with that Brad. If not, not worries.
They are offering an extended ed course on it and also a presentation during insights.
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It must be pretty in-depth if they can give a 4 hour course on it.
It goes to the foundations of the entire production and inventory management process so I can’t imagine they can cover it well in 4 hours 
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Oh!
Circling back on this since I just found it. Were you ever able to find a recording on this?
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