Hello. We are moving from a UOM of EA Sales process to a Packaging Quantity process. We sell the same part to various customers but with different UOM. For example, 10 per bag, 100 per envelope, etc.
We are curious how to include the packing instructions for a given order. The only option we thought of was setting up many approved BOM and selecting the one that fits the UOM requested. Or, we use a revision designation to point to another BOM.
Thanks
@japennell01 Welcome. Not knowing your flow if I was doing this for us. We would sell 10 bags with 100 per bag. The material queue would tell materials to pull 1,000 EA and on the movement report they take to packaging I would add the sales order UOM and the conversion factor that 1 bag = 100 EA.
The challenge we are having is this. We setup a BOM for each potential UOM/pack type. We needed a unique BOM for each UOM so we can provide packing instructions for each UOM that would potentially be used.
The issue is when the floor generates the job, they cannot see what UOM was selected at the Sales Order unless they manually look for the sale order, read it and then they would know which BOM to select when creating the job/traveler.
I am far from an expert here and am trying to figure all this out…
I appreciate your taking the time to comment on our inquiry. 
Is anything different in the boms except packing instructions? Are the quantities different than if you built an EA? If you are doing a make direct job then it is going to make an EA job anyway, so you would just need a bpm to update the packaging step instructions based on the UOM from the linked sales order. Only has one bom per part and can do different packaging based on the sales order.
I made a part with SET and BX as UOMs.
I made a sales order for 10 sets and the job was made for 1,000 EA.
Could it be as simple as adding the “container” part to the BOM?
A job requiring 100 parts and 10 bags would obviously be for “10 BAGS” (containing 10 parts per bag)
Where as 100 parts and 1 envelope would be for “1 ENVOLPE” (containing 100 parts)
Thank you all for your insightful suggestions. We have decided to look down the BPM route as suggested.
We really appreciate your taking the time to offer your comments. They were very helpful!