So… a couple of months later…
I ended up setting up a ‘template’ for each item, with variants for each level of case pack. Primarily, this was due to not seeing any way to link barcodes to their appropriate uom with a single item entry- can add multiple barcodes, can add multiple uoms and define their conversions, but no ‘barcode a’=uom ‘a’, ‘barcode b’=‘uom b’ that I could find. This really seems like a missed opportunity that would make the entire inventory management module a lot easier to use. …Or maybe there just needs to be a ‘Barcode Master List’ like the customer/item/supplier master lists?
As stated in my original post, I purchase/receive items in a ‘Case’ that typically consists of 'Package’s of 'Each’s. As of now, I have been able to upload starting inventories (by ‘Case’ UoM variant) and have been using the ‘Each’ UoM variant on Sales Invoices, but there isn’t really any readily available inventory tracking occurring- the ‘Case’ UoM shows the opening inventory quantity and the ‘Each’ UoM shows the sold quantity as a negative quantity.
Is there a way to see the Item quantity that takes into account the levels/movements of all of that Item’s variants?
If this is not possible, is there a way to assign UoM to Barcode in order to get rid of all of the variants and just have single item entries that contain all of the relevant UoM/pricing/barcodes for each UoM (ideal)?