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Use

The conversion of units of measure is required to convert business measurements into other units. Business measurements encompass physical measurements which are either assigned to a dimension or are nondimensional. Nondimensional measurements are understood as countable measurements (palette, unit..).

You differentiate between conversions for which you only need to enter a source and target unit in order to perform conversion and conversions for which specifying these values alone is not sufficient. For the latter, you have to enter a conversion factor which is derived from a characteristic or a characteristic combination (compound characteristic) and the corresponding properties.

  1. Measurements of length

    Conversions within the same dimension ID (T006-DIMID) - for example, length:

    1 m = 100 cm (linear correlation)

    Meter and Centimeter both belong to dimension ID LENGTH.

  2. Measurements of number associated with measurements of weight

    Conversions involving different dimension IDs - for example, number and weight.

    1 unit = 25 g (linear correlation)

    Unit has dimension ID AAAADL and Gram has dimension ID MASS.

Example

Number

Unit

 

Number

Unit

1

Chocolate bar

=

25

g

1

Small carton

=

12

Chocolate bar

1

Large carton

=

20

Small carton

1

Europallet

=

40

Large carton

Question: How many chocolate bars fit on one europallet (PAL)?