Many shipping and planning things are based on volume, not weight. Or at least in part.
Most all shipping companies care about item volume as much as weight. When exporting, you need volume for shipping containers.
For warehouse planning and pallet organizations, you need volumes.
Even retails stores need volumes and product dimensions for warehousing and planning the layout of the store floor.
When assigning shipping costs to purchased items, it may be best to prorate by volume as by any other method.
by: Jody R. | over a year ago | Operations Management
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Also, item dimensions as well. The volumes can auto calculate even based on the dimensions, but would need to be different for each unit of measure.
it will be great, also adding the chargeable kg for all type of transportation
Lost another deal to a competitor because the competitor has both weight and volume per Item, with automatic totals per SO and PO, and Sage doesnt.
Completely agree with this. Currently can only do with Optional Fields which can be clumsy to use in reports etc. This should be done as a priority!