Comment 11 for bug 400702

In deciding how to name my "unit of measure" fields in my own ERP app, I googled some other apps, to see how they do it.

SAP has a "Base Unit Of Measurement", and allows for customized UOMs for orders, production, etc:
http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10942&start=0

Adempiere has a wiki discussion page on this topic:
http://www.adempiere.com/index.php/Sponsored_Development:_Inventory_UOMs_and_UOM_Conversion_Enhancements

They discuss a Bill Of Materials UOM as the base "standard", and then "Stocked UOM", "Price UOM", "Storage UOM", etc. Basically, in the Wiki discussion they allow for a custom UOM for any kind of stock movement or account change, similar to SAP.

And re: Phuong on 2009-09-18: "Unit of Measure" and "Unit of Sale" seems arbitrary. What about "Unit of Production"? "Unit of Storage" / "Unit of Stock"? "Unit of Transfer"? Those might be different from both the base UOMeasure and the UOSale.

Note that the common term SKU is a "Stock Keeping Unit", and refers to a specific Product in a specific Unit Of Measure.

It seems to me that just two UOMs: "Master Unit" and "Secondary Unit" is not sufficient... especially if they are named "Unit of Measure" and "Unit of Sale"...

There is a terrific list of ERP terms in English here:
http://www.inventoryops.com/dictionary.htm

I highly recommend that entire website for any ERP questions. The author is domain knowledge expert in inventory management, and he writes as if he's a programmer.