Hi Swapnil,

Shipment is currently used for Delivery and Goods Inwards. 
Why would you want a Shipment for Inventory Transfer?

Regards,
James Yong

On 2017-10-16 21:32, Swapnil Shah <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Yes James,
> ITH should work. I would prefer to have ITH tightly coupled with
> InventoryTransfer(IT) i.e. even in case of single item transfer create
> corresponding entries in ITH and IT both to maintain data integrity. Also,
> We can try tying up Inventory Transfer with Shipment through ITH itself or
> a separate entity e.g., InventoryTransferShipment.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Swapnil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Yong [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 9:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: RE: Quantity missing for inventory transfer records
> 
> Hi Swapnil,
> 
> Another possible solution is to have an header entity, e.g.
> InventoryTransferHeader (ITH), containing additional or common info
> related to the group transfer.
> For group transfer, ITH is created and each InventoryTransfer will contain
> a FK to ITH.
> For single transfer, ITH can be empty.
> 
> Regards,
> James Yong
> 
> On 2017-10-14 18:59, Swapnil Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Folks,
> > One very frequent use case that we encounter is that any transfer
> > request initiated from one facility to another is generally for
> > multiple products as they all need to go in a single shipment against
> > transfer request so as to be cost effective.
> >
> > Current schema has the limitation that any given inventory transfer
> > can only be for single inventory item (and hence only one product).
> > Would it make sense and be feasible if we enhance the existing design
> > such that multiple products/inventory can be tied with a single
> > transfer
> > (InventoryTransferId) request (possibly by having InventoryTransferId
> > + InventoryItemId as PK) and shipment is tied up with it as well. Of
> > course by leaving a proper audit trail via InventoryItemDetail etc.
> >
> > Let's share any further thoughts or similar business cases and then we
> > can try to support it if it is generic enough.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Swapnil
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Yong [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 9:36 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Quantity missing for inventory transfer records
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It is better to add InventoryTransferId column to Inventory Item
> > Detail
> > (IID) table so that we easily link the IID record to the Inventory
> > Transfer table.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Regards,
> > James Yong
> >
> > On 2017-10-13 23:18, "James Yong"<[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Suraj,
> > >
> > > Shouldn't the transfer detail be stored at Inventory Item Detail
> table?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > James Yong
> > >
> > > On 2017-10-13 16:44, Suraj Khurana <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > While creating inventory transfers, a new inventory item is
> > > > created and successfully gets updated after completing inventory
> transfer.
> > > > As per current implementation, we don't store transferred quantity
> > > > anywhere in *InventoryTransfer *entity and quantity is only
> > > > available on the newly created inventory item. Problem is, it gets
> > > > deluded on time being and user won't get exact quantity for which
> > inventory transfer was initialized.
> > > >
> > > > IMO, we should maintain transferred quantity at *InventoryTransfer
> > > > *entity as well for proper history maintenance of records.
> > > >
> > > > Please share your thoughts on this.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > > *Suraj Khurana* | Sr. Enterprise Software Engineer *HotWax
> > > > Commerce* by  *HotWax Systems* Plot no. 80, Scheme no. 78, Vijay
> > > > Nagar, Indore, M.P. India 452010
> > > >
> > >
> >
> 

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