Swapnil Shah created OFBIZ-12053:
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Summary: Promising against Future Supply of Inventory
Key: OFBIZ-12053
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-12053
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: order
Reporter: Swapnil Shah
Requirement Elicitation:
Promising delivery of any product or SKU to a customer out of On Hand inventory
against any firm or forecasted demand arising either in the form of Sales Order
or Production Runs(Jobs) in the system has been now been a established practice
and well supported to a great extent within Ofbiz.
However, there is a strong need felt to have a solution that can address the
problem in making promises to customer for any product or SKU out of any future
or expected supply of inventory through inbound shipments from vendors or
suppliers. There may be different natures of demand for which such kind of
solution capability can serve well like:
* Demand from orders or jobs which couldn't get any commitment out of on hand
inventory and thus are often termed as Backordered (BO)
* Demand from Advanced or Pre-booked orders while launching new product line
as inventory is yet to arrive at fulfilment locations
* Demand from booked orders against limited edition version of existing
product line as inventory is yet to arrive at fulfilment locations
* Demand from sample lines booked during pre-launch event
* and so on...
While attempting to promise customer from future supply for a product/SKU then
from solutioning stand point, anything that can try to address the following
questions should be a good start to begin with:
* How to promise (i.e., what should be the rules or constraints or basis for
promising order)
* How much to promise (i.e. how many units out of ordered units need to be
promised for any given order)
* How much is Available to Promise (i.e. how many promisable units available
from different sources or inbound shipments for a given product/SKU)
* Where to Promise from (i.e. from which source or inbound shipment the order
can be promised)
* When to promise (i.e. on what date a given order can be promised)
Let's use this space to add on to it with more such real time use scenarios or
questions that needs the right answer.
We could try writing the design to solve for it in a separate linked ticket
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