On 28/12/10 12:23 +0100, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > The return of composite containers on the other hand seems like a less > > likely example. Why wouldn't the crate and the bottles both be all products > > themselves? Otherwise what happens when a crate is returned with all > > bottles but 1?(Assume that 1 bottle was broken and was discarded prior to > > the customer returning the containers) > > That was exactly my question. How to best modelize such a configuration to be > most flexible. If you think for a supermarket, they want just to have one > input > for one crate incl. bottles. If a bottle is broken, it must be possible > to handle it separately. > It will be good to have the input from someone familiar with business > logistics to see if there are other corner cases in handling of empties. > So far I am seeing empties as products with individual accounting. Composed > empties are like composed products. But I am not sure, I am not expertised in > logistics.
We did sometimes ago modules for a customer to manage returnable to supplier.
Here are the modules (for version 1.4 I think):
http://www.b2ck.com/~ced/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/modules
It could be a good starting point.
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