the parts are there the business logic is not I see few layers of business logic one layer is basic to all countries the next layer is specific to EU contries. the next layer is your customization for your way of doing business.
the combining of PO like a forwarder would do is not really supported and needs some evaluation. it would be a agregite type of process. you would need, a couple of inspection and re-organization points or have a blanket PO to the forwared that associated the other PO. you could also do something with shipping groups. my 2cents off the top of my head. ========================= 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> Jonatan Soto sent the following on 5/10/2010 9:35 AM: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to implement the following scenario into Ofbiz but i prefer to > consult here firstly just in case it's possible to do it OOTB: > > > - Actors: Destination company, Source company, International Carrier, > Suppliers, Tax authorities > > > - In most cases a purchase order will be send by sea, but sometimes could > be send by air, it will depends of the urgency. The international carrier > will be the same using both methods. > - Money exchange commission and fees should be charged in some way to the > products. Whislist: I will develop a gateway to the ECB (European Central > Bank) to get the currency rate automatically updated every day. They > provide > the mechanism to integrate this into any application through XML so I don't > think it will be very difficult. > > > - I have different suppliers in the source country and I often will make > orders grouping them. I usually use FCA incoterm but in some cases could be > EXW for different suppliers. EXW represents that my international carrier > picks up the order items and I will be charged for that. > > > 1. Everytime a purchase order is generated and received by the supplier, > the items will be send to the international carrier warehouse located in > the > source country. I also have control of a company, settled in the source > country, who will be the responsible of get the different invoices from the > suppliers, unify them and make one invoice using the source company > details. > At this point port/airport charges of the source country will be applied. > 2. So, when the purchase orders reaches the destination port/airport > charges of the will be applied. Once the orders successful passes the > pertinent controls, the purchase order will be stored in the warehouse of > the international carrier for a while. At this time some some taxes from > the > destination country will be applied (VAT, duty tax). > 3. Finally, the international carrier sends me the purchase order to my > destination warehouse and give me the invoice including all the expenses > mentioned before plus the freight expenses and the invoice previously > generated by my company of the source country. The freight expenses are > calculated in a different way depending on the service has been chosen, eg: > LCL (Groupage), FCL (Full container...) > > > By now, I've created all the parties but don't know how to relate each other > in order to get this things sorted. I would like to get the total cost for > each product automatically calculated considering the volume and weight of > the purchase order and all taxes, commissions, etc. > > It is not my intention to get a free-consulting session. I merely want to > know what is possible to do OOTB and what is not, so any kind of answers > that provide me a guidance (even those require customization) are fine and I > will appreciate a lot. In fact I would like to include my experience about > this in the wiki (extracting this to a generic procedure). Perharps in HEMP > as a story for import/export? > > > Thank you very much in advance. >
