Hi, I am still trying to understand the functional concepts of OFBiz to find out if it is the right product for me. I find that quite difficult, because documentation is not complete and there are so many functions of which I think, not all are necessary for me. So I want to ask if someone could show me the direction where to search.
I am trying to map the following business process to OFBiz: My company sells services. There are no physical goods to be produced or to be managed in a warehouse. There is no need for a webshop, the app would only be used by the backoffice. For the most services we provide, we in turn have to order other services from external service providers. These providers may produce a physical product that is shipped to the customer (I have already found the drop shipment in OFBiz). The major task I want to do with OFBiz is to - create orders for customers - plan which services we have to buy from external providers to fulfill a sales order - plan when certain activities have to be done by us, the customer or an external provider - track the status of these activities So, a sales order seems appropriate to start with. Purchase orders could be used for other service providers and work efforts seem to be useful for activities. My problem is, I don't get it all work together. My idea was to use this pretty cool drop shipment feature to link purchase orders (for the external providers) to sales orders. But it seems to be not implemented yet (see earlier posts) and I don't know how to link a new purchase order to an existing sales order. Furthermore a drop shipment has to be declared before the sales order is actually created. But I want to create the sales order (perhaps from a proposal) and later assign any purchase orders to it. The next problem is to plan the activities. I can create Work Efforts which I can see in the task list (type task) or in the calendar (type event). But I don't know how to assign a task to an order, so I could track the fulfillment of the order. Another question: can I define alternative products in a proposal? I.e. assign an alternative product to a proposal item whose price is not calculated in the sum of the proposal. So the customer knows he can choose from these two items (and can calculate the price itself, or perhaps it would be cool if only the difference for the alternative product is shown in the proposal). Two last questions: 1. Can I attach external files (like received invoice pdfs) to an order or any other object? 2. I have recognized that the party entities have a historization feature (the name in the profile has a history). Is this a generic feature which can be enabled for e.g. sales orders, too? Thanks a lot for reading so far and for giving me any advice With best regards Sebastian -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-OFBiz-for-me--tp16939814p16939814.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
