On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Naveen Poddar <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, the business I am trying to map requires me to be able to manually > assign inventory items.
We ran into problems with the issuance and allocation logic because our business has some extremely strict requirements on inventory. The issuance service likes to manage lots, will change owners, will merge lots, etc. In our industry we have some strict traceability and inspection requirements, and we had to turn off most of this functionality, and had to substantially change the order, shipping and receiving workflow. (The ability to do this customization is one of our main reasons for choosing the OFBiz platform.) The good news is this is quite easy to do, and almost all of the related functionality lives in IssuanceServices.xml in the product app. It's important to also be aware things that go in on service ECAs, such as balancing, changes of ownership in transfers, etc. If you spend a little time looking at what OFBiz does with Issuances and all the things that can trigger an issuance and also the various event-driven effects of inventory actions, you won't find it hard to adjust these things to fit your business rules. It also sounds like you need to add steps in the user workflow in order to provide the user a means of issuing specific inventory lots to an order. This is also fairly simple, as OFBiz customizations go. -- James McGill Phoenix AZ
