2534015 - IBP - Best Practices on Applying UOM Conversion in IBP for Inventory

• You are applying UOM conversion on key figures in IBP for Inventory.
• You are looking for Best Practices on how to do it correctly and successfully.

• You might be seeing failures in one or more of the Inventory Optimization (IO) functions (Single/Multi-stage Optimization, Calculate Target Inventory Components, etc) with an error that includes 'numeric overflow' like the following:

numeric overflow: "SAPHANADB"."/IBP/CL_MULTISTAGE=>INV_MULTISTAGE_MAIN_EXT": line 161 col 8

• Even if the IO functions are not failing, results in key figures using UOM conversion may not seem correct.

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