Unit of Measure
In the Odoo Platform, the operations of the product quantity is defined based on the Unit of Measure being specified and assigned to the specific products. So this feature can be seen in the Purchase module also. This Unit of Measure feature allows you to manage your products in different units of Measures. So the platform allows you to define various Unit of Measure categories easily. Each of them can be defined based on your company specifications. The Unit of Measure menu in the Purchase module can be found under the Configuration tab of the module. In the Configuration tab, you can view the Unit of Measure Categories menu under the Unit of Measures section as depicted in the below image.
You can click on the Unit of Measure Categories menu for entering into the window.
In the Unit of Measure window, Odoo manages every configured Unit of Measure Categories in a highly sophisticated manner. All the predefined Unit of Measure Categories are along with its Unit of Measure. This window can also be filtered, grouped based on your business requirements. The CREATE button lets you configure new Unit of Measure Categories by providing a well defined creation form. The screenshot of the creation form is depicted below.
In this Unit of Measure Categories creation form you can allocate the Unit of Measure Category. Under the Unit of Measure tab, you can define the Unit of Measure, Type, UNSPSC Category and many more aspects.
As we clear on the Unit of Measure aspect of this module, we can move on to the Reporting section of the Purchase module.