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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