But involving the complete manufacturing process? please have a look at my earlier message about adding a field to the productassoc entity....
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:13 +1300, Scott Gray wrote: > If you were to go the marketing package route, the box of 10 would be the > marketing package and the single piece would be the product that all > inventory is stored against. The ProductAssoc (type "component" I think) > between the box of 10 and the piece would have a quantity of 10. Whenever > the box is ordered the system would automatically create a production run > which will convert 10 pieces into 1 box. > > So you have a standard finished good as your lowest UOM and then each higher > UOM is a marketing package with the conversion factor stored in > ProductAssoc.quantity. I can't remember exactly if it is the case, but I > think marketing packages are capable of deriving the selling price from the > components if a ProductPrice isn't defined for it, in that way you'd only > need to maintain specific prices when you need to provide a lower cost for > ordering in bulk. > > Regards > Scott > > On 3/10/2010, at 6:02 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > > Hi Scott, this is sure an interesting idea, but then how does the system > > know that they are for example 10 pieces in a box? I still what to have > > the same inventory for boxes and pieces. > > We should be able to store the conversion between the uom's for this > > product somewhere? > > > > Thanks for you input! > > > > Regards, > > Hans > > > > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 17:39 +1300, Scott Gray wrote: > >> Hi Hans, > >> > >> Sorry if this is a silly question, but why not just use different products > >> for different UOMs? You could use virtual/variants if you wanted the UOM > >> to be selectable on a single product page and also marketing packages to > >> automatically produce inventory for the desired UOM from the base UOM. > >> > >> Regards > >> Scott > >> > >> HotWax Media > >> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > >> > >> On 3/10/2010, at 3:54 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > >> > >>> Thank you BJ, > >>> > >>> I had in mind to create and 'productUomAlternatives' table to the > >>> product with a conversion for example from pieces to boxes with an > >>> optional price adjustment percentage. > >>> The system will have however only one uom where everything gets > >>> converted to. > >>> > >>> Anybody else other solutions? > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Hans. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 10:21 -0700, BJ Freeman wrote: > >>>> Yes also like a Feed store will have boxes, Sacks, and loose feed. > >>>> I used the multiple pricing model for the Uom Measure > >>>> in the product screen made it allow multiple UOM. > >>>> > >>>> added to the code that converts from what is received in inventory to > >>>> what is sold so it walks through the Uom. for instance a feed store > >>>> Receives feed in Bulk and then sacks it as inventory is required. > >>>> The Inventory levels have to be checked to see how many in a product > >>>> run to generate to sack up the grain. This Triggers an Seca. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I think a nice touch would be that the could generates the product data > >>>> to show up in orders, based on the Uoms that were generated for the > >>>> products. it would follow the same model for inventory levels on the > >>>> orderentry and Ecommerce > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hans Bakker sent the following on 10/2/2010 4:29 AM: > >>>>> A question to the community: > >>>>> > >>>>> sometimes the same products are sold with different units of measure. > >>>>> Example gold jewelry. > >>>>> > >>>>> Per piece, per box of 10, per box of 50 and per gram gold weight. > >>>>> > >>>>> Is here a preference how to implement that? > >>>>> > >>>>> Remember this has to show up in e-commerce, orders, shipments and > >>>>> invoices... > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> Hans > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > >>> Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak > >>> Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. > >>> > >> > > > > -- > > Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > > Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak > > Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. > > > -- Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates.
