BJ,
I understood that the component already exists, and that it's a proposition to a contribution.That's why I spoke about a
specialpurpose component. To be really interesting it should reuse as much as possible existing things, like you described, for
instance
Thanks
Jacques
From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
what you describe is a Chain store or Franchise stores model.
The Corporate office Orders all inventory to be sent to a HUb or main warehouse.
The store or franchises then order their needs from Hub warehouse.
ofbiz structure supports this though the services need to be customized
each store(productstore) is a facility with its own inventory. The "supplier" of the stores would be the HUB (corporate office)
and handling the ATP and QOH at each store would trigger a PO to the HUB which would then do a transfer.
I suggest you look a the data model book volume one for basic data and how it relates, then step back and see how that relates to
you specific customers structure.
there is a lot of setup as to the partyrelationship (pg 41) that would give you the structure. This would be the core of you
design.
Using the roles and security you can isolate the stores as far as view data.
this also is a customization in the UI.
hope that helps you get started.
sducas sent the following on 1/25/2011 4:06 AM:
Hello Jacques
My customer have a "center of purchase" from where all purchase orders to
external suppliers are created, then suppliers ship the goods to this
"center of purchase" (I don't know the actual english word for that kind of
center, sorry..) ..
Then all my customer stores has to "order" goods to this unique center to
supply their facility.. (a requirement is also to use ATP and QOH minimum
quantity to generate needs then transfer orders when approved).. there is no
invoice or any financial impact for those kind of orders and they have to be
treated separatly for statistics reports and they (of course) have to
trigger an inventory transfert instead of sales issuance.. exept for those 3
specificity it's the same process as for a sale order: pick, verify, ship
...
The inventory transfer from ofbiz out-of-the box didn't fullfill the
requirements at all.. and the patch posted by Si wasn't enough for my
customer requirements because those kinds of inventeory transfer has to be
picked just like a sales order...
I know transfer order dosn't seems to be in the Datamodel book but I heard
about a concept called "interplant order" that seems to be exactly the same
a this while transfer order stuff..
The ofbiz pick logic seems to be very tight to orders...
THX
