Yeah, I guess combining them would work out okay... This is an
alternative to creating purchase requirements, isn't it?
-David
On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
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
