On 19 Jan 16:55, Yvon Grimper wrote:
> On Friday, January 17, 2014 5:04:51 PM UTC+8, Cédric Krier wrote:
> > On 16 Jan 16:57, Yvon Grimper wrote: 
> > > Thanks for your prompt reply. 
> > > I am wondering if there is an automatic way to generate the supplier 
> > > shipment. Looks like the trigger function would be capable to do this 
> > > automatically. 
> >
> > I don't understand why you would want to do that? 
> > Encoding/checking the product deliveried by the supplier is a best 
> > practice. 
> >
>  
> Maybe I missed something. But in the current workflow, after creating a 
> purchase record we have to manually click on create new shipment each 
> time,

What a job.

> put in the vendor name, click on create new product line entry to 
> select those product purchased from the vendor. 

Not clicking on "create", you must search existing lines.

> Isn't there a way to automatize the above procedure (i.e. this shipment 
> entry associated with the vendor we just issued purchase order will be 
> created automatically. ). Just like Yangoon said, 95% of the time, the 
> shipments are identical to the purchase order,

Don't trust suppliers.

> so it will be much easier if 
> the shipment can be created and then we just need to check if there is 
> discrepancies.

For the last time, the goal of the current implementation is to find
discrepancies. Your method is completly error prone. Have you ever
worked in a warehouse and check devilery? I did and trust me the current
method is the best to prevent errors and side effect it works with mixin
deliveries.

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