The Catch weight functionality caters to situations when you weigh your goods during reception and/or picking and you want to manipulate the price unit quantity instead of letting the system calculate it using the conversion factor. It is an extension of the Price unit functionality, allowing you to manually change the price unit quantity/quantities for a sales/purchase order line should the need arise. This can be done for each individual order line quantity during the following:
- Reception confirmation
- Purchase order entry if the order line is a direct reception
- Pick list confirmation
- Sales order entry if the order line is without pick list
During any of the above mentioned stages, the price unit quantity may have changed compared to the conversion factor set up for the item, i.e. the weight for the item on the order line may not be accurate for the price unit setup.
Example:
Your price unit setup is as follows: 1 each = 2 Kg
Order line qty = 1
However, the actual weight for one item is actually 2.5 Kg.
If the CTCH-WGT (Catch weight handling) function is activated in the Function control file, and the item on the purchase/sales order line is flagged for catch weight handling, you will be prompted with a Catch weight panel during any of the above mentioned stages, which will allow you to enter the accurate catch weight quantity. Multiple catch weight quantities can be entered for one order line, allowing you to have a separate weight for each individual item. If a variance limit range was set up for the sales/purchase unit that is correlated with the price unit, you will be flagged with a warning if the entered catch weight quantity is within the variance range limit. If the entered catch weight quantity exceeds the variance range limit, you will be prompted with a window where you will have to authorize the entry of the exceeding quantity by entering your signature and security code.
All catch weights are accumulated to be the price unit quantity for the order line and will also be used to re-calculate the order line value.