When you're placing orders, you may need to take a shipment's size or weight limit into account. Inventory Planner can help streamline your purchasing process by letting you add dimensions to your products.

A product's CBM (volume in cubic meters), net weight, or gross weight information can be entered into the corresponding field in the Replenishment report, or can be imported from a spreadsheet.

In the Replenishment report, click the gear icon at the top right-hand side of the page.

Search for the "CBM", "net weight", or "gross weight columns", then click the column name to add it to your report.

You will then see fields in the Replenishment report where you can enter the relevant information.

Once you have entered the CBM, net weight or gross weight for your variants, save your changes.

You can import your CBM, net weight, or gross weight information to Inventory Planner with a spreadsheet. Learn more about importing product dimensions and other variant information here.

Once the CBM or weight values have been entered into Inventory Planner for your variants, you can view them on your purchase orders.

Enabling the columns will display the total CBM or weight based on the quantity being ordered (i.e. ordered quantity × CBM, net weight or gross weight).

To scale the total quantity on your purchase order so it doesn't exceed the weight or size limits of a shipping container, click Actions > Scale to total CBM or Scale to total weight.

Enter the total target CBM:

Or total net or gross weight:

Then click "Scale" to update the quantities on your purchase order.

The ordered quantities update and a notification is displayed to inform you there was a change.