Purchase Order Import Error : Unit of Measure (value = EA) is invalid or inactive for item XXXXXX

During the import of Purchase order lines from the table po_lines_interface , we are often faced with the error message:

• Unit of Measure (value = EA) is invalid or inactive for item XXXXXX

this error is reported for the below reason:

• The table po_lines_interface has 2 columns : UOM_CODE and Unit Of Measure 

Either of these columns need to be populated

• If we are populating the column : UOM_CODE then we need to give the code of unit of measure eg : EA in this column
• If we are populating the column Unit Of Measure  then we need to populate the description of UOM code column in this field. If there is any discrepancy in this the above error will be reported