Why isn there a global list of UOM changes every quarter?
Your vendors are the best source of that information, as advised in Handling Vendor UOM Changes With Make-Buys (pdf). Vendors prefer you contact them directly regarding price plans and UOM changes, and/or access your account resources on their Web sites. But you may have seen what looks like exceptions to the rule. A few years ago, two wholesalers asked us to communicate the number of their UOM changes during a quarter such changes were extensive. Since then, quarterly UOM changes have not been as notable. Of course, major wholesalers typically change UOM en masse to reflect purchasing trends every October. So, every fourth quarter, we encourage you to take advantage of the Make-Buys program as needed. But it may not be necessary every quarter, depending on your particular item usage. Later, as part of the Office Product Identification Standardization (www.opids.org) initiative, we provided a link to a list of items with extensive changes to MAC codes, item numbers, and units of measur
