There are three ways of defining the quantity units in which data in EC-EIS and EC-BP is to be stored.

If you do not want to use the methods listed below, you can post quantities per data record in any units as you like.

For each basic key figure, you can define the quantity unit in which the data is to be stored. You define the quantity unit when you create a basic key figure. This means that the values for this key figure can be stored in all aspects using only that quantity unit.

If you wish to maintain the values dependent on a single characteristic value using a specific quantity unit, you can define a reference to that characteristic for a basic key figure so that the quantity unit is determined from the characteristic value. A quantity of the basic key figure will then be interpreted with the quantity unit determined by the quantity unit of the characteristic value. An example of this is the activity quantity of a cost center, that is stored in the same units as defined in the master record of the activity type. If quantity unit Hours is defined for quantity type Production hours, the activity quantity of a cost center which references this will also be Hours.