Hi Jonathon
Marketing components are made via a special attribute in a product
association's BOM.
It's full name is:
Marketing Package Auto Explode Component
And, as I said, the components are inventoried separately until you sell
something... Then, a production run is created and executed, and the
product is ready to ship. This system works especially well for
marketing materials, kits, etc etc.
There are even a few other cool features... Like when you order and
receive products that comprise marketing auto explode components, the
products are reduced to their component level.
I'll take a quick moment to honor Si and Jacopo for this feature.
Without their hard work it would still be just an idea sitting in the
annals of Jira.
Anyway... try creating one...
Thanks
Daniel
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 02:35 +0800, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Do you mean the Marketing module? I can only find marketing campaigns there,
> nothing to do with
> products or inventory.
>
> Jonathon
>
> Daniel Kunkel wrote:
> > Jonathan
> >
> > I don't know if you're already familiar with Marketing Packages, or even
> > if they'll apply, but I thought I'd alert you to them since they can be
> > wonderful in the appropriate situation.
> >
> > In some cases where you have "millions of variants" it really comes from
> > a product that has interchangeable parts... colors, sizes, etc. For
> > example, a skateboard with a choice of 10 boards, a choice of 10 wheels,
> > 10 different colored nuts (to attach the wheels) and 10 different trucks
> > (the metal part). In this case, you're only stocking 40 items, but you
> > have 10,000 available products.
> >
> > With marketing packages, you just track the 40 items till a sale is
> > made, then "manufacture" the product per order. I think I've explained
> > this clearly enough that you see the genius of the idea.
> >
> > Anyway, look it up if it applies.
> >
> > Daniel
