and your thoughts and the rest he said.
David E Jones sent the following on 4/28/2008 8:08 AM:
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> On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:54 AM, BJ Freeman wrote:
>> short answers:
>> OOTB does not direct support services, but has bee modified in the past
>> to do this.
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> I wouldn't agree with this... you can manage the whole process of taking
> requests, planning/performing services, billing for them, etc.
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>> OOTB you can not yet do project(activity) planning though a lot has been
>> done in this area.
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> Yes, quite a bit has been done in this area and it is currently possible
> to do a lot of these sorts of things, including complex task
> hierarchies, multiple hierarchies for a project and other ways to manage
> it and report on it differently, even a gantt chart based on the
> hierarchies and such.
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>> OOTB you can do quotes and turn them into sales.
>>
>> some of the things you looking for can be added.
>>
>> Don't see a problem in accomplishing what you want.
>>
>> Suggest you go through the demo and see what is there and not there.
>>
>> sebastianscheid sent the following on 4/28/2008 7:15 AM:
>>> 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
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