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.
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.
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.
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)?