Volume factor

The minimum and maximum volumes you can define (in litres) for each individual process and tank resource are considered when resources are allocated to batches, check schedule runs, and you apply various other scheduling functions.

The quantities are converted to volumes as the batch quantities can be expressed in weights or using non-standard volume units. The volume of a process or tank batch (in liters) is defined as the batch quantity (in another unit) multiplied by the volume factor. For example, Infor Production Scheduling can check the maximum and minimum volumes of resources against 30,000.

Batch Quantity	Volume Factor	Batch Volume
30,000 kg	1.1 liter/kg	33,000 liters

You are only required to specify a volume factor when there are resource-dependent, such as product-independent, minimum and maximum volumes. You can specify a volume factor for each individual product for the tank and process batches on the Products window.