Oh I see yeah that would work without having to use marketing package. That's how I'm doing it right now. But I was just wondering how best to implement this if you want to keep track of the inventories of both the "packaged" items and the "individual" items. I think the case-bottle scenario doesn't really fit well as an example to what I wanted to happen but I think you get the general idea. Thanks.
--- Ian Tabangay On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Vince Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > No we order in pieces. But there is a field on the SupplierProduct entity > to indicate your vendor's minimum order qty. If you try to put a qty below > that value on a PO it will give you an error. > > So if I were entering a PO for a case I would put a qty of 12 on the line. > I would also have a value in the SupplierProduct record indicating 12 is the > minimum order qty. > > Vince Clark > www.globalera.com > [email protected] > (303) 493-6723 office > (303) 523-4843 cell > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ian tabangay" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 3:09:23 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: Re: Question on inventory for Products of Type Marketing Package: > Auto Manufactured > > Hi. Sorry you lost me with the inventory part. Please bear with me. > Still using the case and bottle (1:12) as an example: > so what you did was when creating a Purchase Order, you order by the vendor > quantity (ie, case) but when you receive it and put it into your inventory, > you put them in pieces (ie, bottles)? > was my understanding correct? > > > ---- > Ian Tabangay > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Vince Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We have the same situation. We are in a retail environment where our >> client purchases from vendors in "vendor quantities" and sells in "retail >> quantities." You're on the right path, sort of. You can use marketing >> packages for selling products, but you cannot use them for purchasing. It >> would make a lot of sense but the system doesn't support it. Specifically, >> you cannot create a marketing package to represent a vendor pack such as a >> case because the current receiving functionality won't break that case down >> into individual units (bottles.) So what you will have in inventory is one >> case, not 12 bottles. >> >> There may be another more manual way to break it down after it has been >> receive but I haven't looked into that. >> >> Here is what we are doing: >> We inventory everything in pieces. For purchasing we store the vendor >> quantity in a field on the SupplierProduct record so we can order in the >> proper qty's on the PO. The downside to this is that you can only represent >> one vendor quantity. I would much rather have the option of using a >> marketing package so I could define multiple vendor quantities. The other >> downside is that when broken down to the piece level the supplier cost >> number gets very small. We actually had to increase the precision on >> lastPrice in SupplierProduct in order to support this. This can also lead to >> rounding errors that must be corrected when ordering or paying a vendor >> invoice. >> >> We ARE using marketing packages for sales. So in your situation you could >> receive 12 bottles (1 case) and then use marketing packages to create six >> packs. If you don't sell that way then you don't need the marketing >> packages. Just sell the individual bottles. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Vince Clark >> www.globalera.com >> [email protected] >> (303) 493-6723 office >> (303) 523-4843 cell >> >> >
