After you set up the appropriate category codes and category sets, you must define the containers and cartons into which you will later pack items. Because containers represent another type of item, you use the Master Items form to set them up.

Note: You must define container items and contained item with the same unit of measure class. For example, if you have an item defined in inches, and a container defined in centimeters, the system will make the conversion from inches to centimeters (or centimeters to inches), because both units of measure are of the UOM class, Length

Defining Contained Item

After you set up appropriate category codes and category sets, you must modify or update the attributes of the items for which you want the system to suggest containers.
For cartonization to work properly, you must update the following item attributes:

• Item's category set from the Contained Item category set
• Physical dimensions of the item: weight, volume, and dimension

Note: Optionally, you may specify a weight, volume, and dimension, and corresponding UOMs for items in which you want the system to suggest cartonization, otherwise, cartonization will assume that the item has 0 weight, volume, and dimension for the case of contents, or infinite capacity in the case of containers.