Yes, I agree with David on this kind of a setup. Technically it
might even better to have the drop ship properties be associated with
ProductStore, but that's probably over-designing it.
Si
On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:19 PM, David E Jones wrote:
This is sounding more like we need an enum field or something...
The options so far could be:
- allow manual drop ship
- auto drop ship on low quantity
- only drop ship (never stock)
There may be others. I know we don't plan to support all of these
initially, but the fact that they've already come up in casual
discussion means that probably will... Of course, this enum is a
bit different and should probably go on the Product rather than on
the SupplierProduct.
On the SupplierProduct entity we should probably have a field like
"willDropShip" that is an indicator of whether or not the supplier
will drop-ship that particular product.
-David
On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
David,
thanks, these are good points. Please see my comments below:
David E Jones wrote:
Would this field, if set to Y, basically mean that if inventory
is not available in the company's warehouse then drop-ship it
through the supplier?
The new field I'm proposing ("allowDropShipments"), if set to "Y",
would basically mean that we can ask to that supplier to drop ship
the item. The use case I have in mind is this: the backoffice user
is entering a sales order for product X and he discovers that its
stock level is low, so he lookups if there are suppliers that are
available to drop ship the item (allowDropShipments=Y) and selects
one of them (or just check a 'drop ship' box and the system
automatically try to assign it to one of the suppliers for drop
shipment).
Or would it mean that it should always be drop-shipped regardless
of local inventory? If not perhaps we might want a different
option for that?
Yes, if a product is always drop shipped it should be handled in a
different way: I was thinking to use (as is now for the current
'drop-shipment' implementation - that is more a 'cross-dock'
shipping implementation, i.e. the purchased products are received
and immediately assigned to the sales order) the
Product.requirementMethodEnumId field for this.
Does it make sense?
Jacopo
-David
On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
I'm going to implement true (yet simple) drop shipment features
and I'll need to specify which products can be drop shipped per
supplier-product.
What about adding a new field, "allowDropShipments"(?), to the
SupplierProduct entity?
Jacopo
