Senthil,
Ofbiz demo data has sample of PIZZA product. You can order it from
ecommerce application. This simple example that will give you good
start to design your system.
Regards
Anil Patel
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Senthil Saivam wrote:
Hi,
I am looking at building something for a catering business. I have
looked at the demos of OFBiz and have seen what it offers for order,
inventory, product and facility management. I need some suggestions
on how to map my requirements to the features offered by OFBiz.
The basic idea is that the system is fed with the fixed menu offered
by the business and also the ingredients required to make each item
in the menu. Somebody (event manager?) enters the order (lets call
it catering order) for an event (say 200 dinners ...). This is used
to create a corresponding order of the actual ingredients required
and sent to the stores department. The stores department will need
to see what is available in stock and procure the items not in stock.
Based on my understanding of OFBiz, I think my requirements can be
incorporated in the following manner:
1. Use the ecommerce application to accept the catering order from
the items in the menu
2. Automatically create a sales order for the actual ingredients
required to cook the catering order
3. Depending on the inventory, automatically create a purchase order
for the ingredients not in stock
4. Use the "Receive Items" feature of the purchase order to update
the inventory after procurment
Following are the questions I have:
1. Is my design going in the right direction!
2. How would I model the menu items and the ingredients for each
item? Menu items are used in the catering order and ingredients are
used in the sales/purchase order. I guess the ingredients are the
products in OFBiz.
3. Should the catering order be modelled as just another sales
order? For every sales order, I will also need to keep track of the
corresponding catering order. How would I do this?
4. Is there a way to automatically create a purchase order for all
the missing items in the inventory required to fulfill all the
approved sales orders at any point of time?
Thanks for your help.
cheers,
senthil
