Ok, so:
1) SupplierProduct.willDropShip: an indicator of whether or not the
supplier will drop-ship that particular product
2) I propose to use Product.requirementMethodEnumId to list also:
- allow manual drop ship
- auto drop ship on low quantity
- only drop ship (never stock)
together with the existing requirement creation options
Is it ok?
Jacopo
Si Chen wrote:
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
