The terms Fixed Asset and Inventory Item are more that just
accounting terms, they are also operational terms.
An Inventory Item is something to be held for sale and not used. A
Fixed Asset is meant to be kept for long term use, either directly or
for whatever product or service is offered by the company, including
rental of those fixed assets.
For rental of fixed assets it doesn't make sense to put them in
inventory, that is only for items for sale. Their availability is
best tracked through WorkEfforts, used to track availability as well
as events (when they are busy or in use).
Is there a reason why this wouldn't work or that you wouldn't want to
use what is already implemented?
-David
On Sep 16, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Chris Howe wrote:
This is for product rental. It kind of falls in
between. It's not for company use, but it's not being
offered for sale (transfer of ownership).
Fixed Assets and Inventory are terminology for
Financial accounting in the sense and distinction that
you're making.
However, inventory has a seperate meaning in regards
to product availablity. The InventoryItem entity in
OFBiz is a product entity, not an accounting entity.
So, the available for rental of serialized inventory
falls closer to this model.
--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sep 16, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Chris Howe wrote:
There would probably also be a
FixedAssetInventoryItem
entity to accomplish this but at the moment I'm
concerned about the duplication/ability to go out
of
sync of the serialized inventory that's
assigned/recorded at receiving a shipment and the
rerecording of those idValues for the fixed asset.
Generally when something is purchased it is received
either as a
FixedAsset for company use, or as an InventoryItem
for resale. I
don't think we want to lose that distinction... I
think it would be
pretty confusing for users of the system, as well as
make the code a
fair but messier.
-David
