Skip have you consider the sequence for a dropshipper, and some
fulfillment houses.
you don't have their inventory.

Skip sent the following on 10/24/2007 1:09 PM:
> Dave
> 
> I agree that this is a big hole/bug.  On the other hand, there are folks who
> don't mind/prefer the sloppiness (I have a customer just like that).  So,
> perhaps we could use a property to define the behavior, like:
> 
> ilikesloppybookkeeping=true/false  (tongue in cheek)
> 
> However, I would be happy to collaborate to get this done.  I want
> requirements and automatic backorders issued for out of stock etc for quick
> ship.  I was just about to start work on this.  We could modify the existing
> service to look for a property and if it exists, do the better bookkeeping /
> automatic ordering.
> 
> This is a hole for me because if my customer has a customer at the counter
> and is selling him some stuff and part of it is on back order, he has to
> exit out of the sales order screen and go to the shipping screen to get it
> all done right.  It's a pain and will happen 10 times a day for him.  Fixing
> the quickship will take care of it.
> 
> Maybe with the configurable property, the muckity-mucks won't be so
> reluctant to accept it.
> 
> Skip
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:24 PM
> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
> Subject: Re: shipments made for out of stock items
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:41 AM, Dave Tenerowicz wrote:
> 
>> The more I think about this, it seems inappropriate for an ERP
>> system to allow this. Why would the quick ship service allow a user
>> to charge a customers credit card  and "ship" a physical product
>> that the system "knew" was not available?
> 
> For some users the system doesn't know everything...
> 
>> Before charging the card, the sales person would want to confirm
>> that the goods were actually available. Once this was confirmed, it
>> would take a facility worker 30 seconds to adjust the inventory,
>> leaving an audit trail etc.
> 
> Yes, but not everyone wants to use it this way.
> 
>> To me this seems like a JIRA issue, which should be fixed.
>>
>> I'll submit the issue and we'll submit a fix.
> 
> It will most likely be rejected.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
>> Dave Tenerowicz wrote:
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> David E Jones wrote:
>>>> Well, there ya go!
>>>>
>>>> The quick ship order stuff doesn't check stock levels...
>>>>
>>>> -David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Dave Tenerowicz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I should have mentioned that we created a new service to
>>>>> automatically create shipments. It calls quickShipOrder as part
>>>>> of it's processing.
>>>>> -Dave
>>>>>
>>>>> David E Jones wrote:
>>>>>> What do you mean by "being created"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There isn't really anything that automatically creates
>>>>>> shipments, unless a human does it through some UI like the
>>>>>> shipment or packing screens (or a service or something was
>>>>>> written to automatically do it somehow).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 22, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Dave Tenerowicz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It appears that shipments are being created with out of stock
>>>>>>> items in an implementation we are doing. I am guessing this is
>>>>>>> due to product store settings, not a code issue.
>>>>>>> rev =  545314
>>>>>>> check inventory=Y
>>>>>>> reserve inventory=Y
>>>>>>> require inventory=N
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All products are finished goods (no digital or virtual)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Dave Tenerowicz
>>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave Tenerowicz
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>> --
>> Dave Tenerowicz
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Office: 303.493.6727
>> Mobile 303.906.6116
>> Fax 303.814.8330
>>
>> Visit us at http://www.salmonllc.com
>> For ERP Information: http://www.salmonllc.com/Jsp/vanity/
>> ERP_CRM.jsp?nav=2&NavBarId=ERP_CRMServices
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