Weights and measures in Order documents

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

It was questioned why we had the following items in the Order ABIE.

TotalPackagesQuantity

GrossWeightMeasure

NetWeightMeasure

NetNetWeightMeasure

GrossVolumeMeasure

NetVolumeMeasure

They are there because they were inherited in the original UBL from the xCBL Order Summary structure.  And, to date, no-one has challenged them.

The only past comments I could find justifying this are:

This is particularly important for the industries like tobacco where tax is calculated on the weight of the cigarettes rather than on the retail item.

(UBL 0p65 Jan 2002)

Note, that they are not used in the UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset.  Also they are all optional and can be derived from the underlying Order Line Items - they are derivative totals.

So unless we can get someone to come up with a justification, it looks like we may drop these.


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