Thinking more about this...
in the sales order the "drop shipment" method is defined at ship group
level (by setting the OrderItemShipGroup.supplierPartyId field); the
same order item could be split into different ship groups, and only some
of them could be for drop shipments.
What if we don't add new orderItemTypes for drop shipments and leave
things as they are now at the order level?
Then, when we create invoice items for order items, we could try to look
at the ship group we are considering in the invoice; if it is a "drop
ship" group then we could convert the invoiceItemTypeId to a
"drop-ship"-specific variant (maybe using a naming convention as I
suggested in my first message).
Hmmm... this solution is similar to the original one, but I have the
feeling I'm missing something important.
Jacopo
David E Jones wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if doing a different account for drop-shipping is
best done through an InvoiceItemType, from an OrderItemType, etc.
On the other hand, maybe that is best and going back to the
OrderItemType is maybe a good idea because at the time of ordering...
well wait.
Actually it's not at order time that drop-ship would be selected, but at
shipment time. Or actually, maybe not. That might depend on the
organization as some may actually do the drop-shipping allocation during
inventory reservation, and then it would be when the order is placed. If
it was after the order placing we could still change the
OrderItem.orderItemTypeId to be the drop-ship variation on the previous
orderItemTypeId.
So, maybe looking at the orderItemTypeId is the best approach. I was
going to suggest looking at the shipmentItemTypeId somehow, but that is
a bad idea because for drop-shipped fulfillment the company may not have
Shipment records... so that's not a good direction to think in.
I guess coming back to the beginning: the way you described it looks
good Jacopo, and hopefully what I've written clarifies that (as opposed
to obscuring it ;) ).
-David
On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
David,
I think I understand what you mean, but following your suggestion will
require to define special types for orderItemTypeId as well (and maybe
it is a good idea); and then create a mapping between the (drop
shipment) orderItemTypeId and the (drop shipment) invoiceItemTypeId.
This means definitely a cleaner approach but also a lot of new types
and type mappings (for orders, invoices, returns...).
What is the best way to go?
Jacopo
David E Jones wrote:
The best way to do this would be to use the parent type pattern and
have a parent type for all of the InvoiceItemType Ids that are used
for drop shipped order, and that is easy to apply to other things as
well (and code can be written pretty easily to look at it).
-David
On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:52 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
I've moved this thread to from the user to the dev list.
I did some research on how to implement this (i.e. assign specific
invoice item types for purchase invoices for drop shipped items) and
maybe the easiest way is to define a new InvoiceItemType for each of
the existing ones with DS_ prefix (or similar).
The algoritm would be:
1) using the InvoiceItemTypeMap find the invoiceItemTypeId
associated to the orderItemTypeId (as is now)
2) if it is a drop shipment, add the prefix DS_: "DS_" +
invoiceItemTypeId
What do you think?
Jacopo
Dave Tenerowicz wrote:
# 2 is a good suggestion - I'll try that and let the ml know the
results. Option 1 would not work because the same product could be
drop shipped, or shipped from the company warehouse.
-Dave
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
As a first shot I'd say that:
1) you can try to use GL mappings for ProductCategories (and group
your products in different product categories) or
2) we have to generate invoice items for drop shipped products
with special invoiceItemTypes and use the Gl mappings for
invoiceItemTypes to route them to the right accounts
Just my 2 cents
Jacopo
Dave Tenerowicz wrote:
Does anyone have any experience setting up OfBiz accounting so
that the default GL accounts used varies according to the type of
Purchase (for example purchases to replenish stock, vs purchases
that are drop shipped?)
For example, if a PO/Purchase Invoice is for goods for stock, use
one AP account and a corresponding cost of goods. However, if the
PO/Purchase Invoice is for product that was drop shipped, then
use a different AP account and a different purchase COG account.
And finally, if a PO/Purchase Invoice is for trans shipped goods,
use a different pair of accounts. (Trans ship means one company
organization issues the PO, the goods are received at a warehouse
owned by another internal organization and then shipped from that
warehouse to the end customer)
After an hour of experimentation, I cannot find a way to get the
proper results. Has anyone solved a problem like this before?
