A longer explanation how we want to implement this can be found at:
http://www.antwebsystems.com/control/ViewBlogArticle?contentId=16750&blogContentId=AWS_BLOG

Regards,
Hans

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:52 +0700, Hans Bakker wrote:
> We are are still getting the best solution, help appreciated.
> 
> We are thinking of the following:
> you have a product which you sell in pieces and boxes of ten.
> 
> Then the product per piece is the lowest denominator and has a variant
> association to a virtual/variant product which is an alternative
> packaging of the product per piece and can have an adjusted price but no
> inventory.
> 
> Currently the e-commerce checks for the virtual flag and want to show a
> feature selection list, however in the case of the virtual- and variant
> flag both set, it should not.
> 
> When the box of 10 is selected, The productId per piece is selected with
> the adjusted price of the box variant.
> 
> Comments very much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Hans
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:13 -0600, David E Jones wrote:
> > For boxes of a product you'll usually have one product that represents the 
> > individual items (which may or may not be for sale directly to the 
> > customer), and one that is a product that represents the box and that is 
> > associated with the individual item. In OFBiz there are a few different 
> > product types you can choose from to have the system handle the box in 
> > different ways automatically, or you can use plain old Finished Good to 
> > handle the boxes manually.
> > 
> > For certain products all you need is the three fields already on the 
> > Product entity:
> > 
> > quantityUomId
> > quantityIncluded
> > piecesIncluded
> > 
> > For example if you have a six-pack of 12oz soda cans you would have 
> > quantityIncluded=12, quantityUomId=oz, piecesIncluded=6.
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > 
> > On Oct 2, 2010, at 11:02 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
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>> 
> > >>> 
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