Resource planning is usually against requirements. These can be realistic like sales orders, or what if's projection.
ofbiz(trunk svn) at this point is limited to sales orders requirements if you look at the applications\manufacturing\data\ManufacturingData.xml it will give you and Idea of the MrpEventType. with project manager, it would provided some "what-if scenarios" as well as well as give an overview of actual requirements and the progress of a requirement. I am looking at what it will take for this integration now. Based on that if the WorkEffortCostCalc or any manufacturing processes are modifies after the project manager has shown a result, a task message should be generated be generate to view the project manager results again, noting what was changed. ========================= 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 4/19/2010 9:39 PM: > > BJ Freeman wrote: >> some thoughts >> if you provide a way to change a process you must make sure it can not >> be changed once it is used for Resource planning without feeding back >> the change to the Resource planning component. >> >> cloning from a template or cloning to create a template is acceptable. >> Cloning of data that is in two places creates a sync situation. >> This trickles down to the BI component. >> > > Yep this is a real good point; we need to avoid data redundancy at all times > in the operational database. I must confess that I am not very familiar > with the resource planning in Ofbiz at all. > > What I have now in our project is a routing template that you can only > assign specific resources to it the form of WorkEffortPartyAssignment. > These relations (between WorkEffort and Party) were always cloned from the > routing template (I made no change there). The implication is that the > WorkEffort's resource could change during some parts of the ProductionRun > lifecycle. In my mind this was during the "non-finished" states -- Created, > Documents Printed, Running -- but not during Completed, Closed, Cancelled. > > How does the Ofbiz resource planning component fit in here? What I have now > puts the onus on either the template task creator to assign the specific > resources up front or on the user that is creating the Production Run (or > printing docs / starting) to assign specific resources to the tasks before > things get rolling.
