If you want to let your customer to create rings then you would use something similar to pc001. once they have order it then a production run would create the Configured good. now if they return it, then they are returning a product. if on returning it you break it back down that would be a production run to return it to raw material and inventory.
what you receive from a supplier could be Raw material or Finished goods, into inventory. the return inventory, to a supplier, is not currently supported. ========================= BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> Bob Morley sent the following on 4/9/2010 8:04 AM: > > BJ Freeman wrote: >> A raw material is something that is acted upon or used by or by human >> labor or industry, for use as a building material to create some product >> so a product would not be defined as RAW_MATERIAL >> >> I am not clear as to how you have an enduser create a product unless >> they are using the standard manufacturing processes. >> if they do make a product based on a product run, then the end produce >> would be a Product type in >> https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProduct?productId=PC001 >> > > If I am in the jewelry business and create fancy rings I may PO from > suppliers a bag of gold and a bag of diamonds. My thinking was that these > are Raw Materials. My customer would come in and custom order a ring of > which I would create an "AGGREGATED" product that would include some of the > gold and some of the diamonds. (Since it is just made of Raw Materials I > suppose it could be creating a "FINISHED_GOOD" instead -- would you consider > this more correct)? > > At any rate, my line of thinking was that my business may buy that bag of > gold via a Purchase Order and upon receiving it we may decide to return it > if say I got 10kt and I wanted 18kt gold. The way Ofbiz was setup, it was > not possible to return a Raw Material. > > Am I using Raw Materials incorrectly here? I would have thought that they > had to be supplied in some manner and as a result should be returnable.
