On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:51 PM, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > With these questions you are implying issues but not actually saying what > you are worried about... > > What is it that concerns you?
My instincts tell me what I need to know personally, but I am anticipating questions from the people who drive my project, that's all. OFBiz isn't something with enough mindshare to build its own confidence among the suits, and it falls on me to sell it. I know there are plenty of people using OFBiz successfully, but none of them quite matches our particular square peg; a specialized type of supply chain management in aerospace engineering. > Are you worried about the customization side of things, or the scaling side > of things? Or, perhaps both? We are finding Product and Order to be a very good starting point, actually, and we just need to add some industry-specific details to the inventory process, and we have some work to do because our concept of "work effort" doesn't quite match what's defined in OFBiz out-of-the-box. It doesn't seem like a huge job so we are fairly confident (and wish to give kudos to you and everyone who has worked to get the application this far!) We don't even expect to face many "scaling" issues, just basic concerns about what will happen when we have to deploy in two or three facilities that might not be able to share a database instance, or what happens when inventory and order records get really large. Our senior management is understandably risk-averse, since the situation that leads us to a customized solution is a result of failure of other solutions to scale to our current needs. It's up to me to reassure them, but I'm mainly going on instincts and hope and my own evaluation of the framework. I've probably talked too much under the subject of "Static methods", since that's not really my concern. I would still very much enjoy hearing from anyone who has done supply chain and inventory control work in OFBiz, especially if their model doesn't quite match what OFBiz's model of "manufacturing." -- James McGill Able Engineering
