Thoughts? Anyone? Thank you for your help in advance.
Jürgen ---------- Forwarded Message ----------- To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:52:50 -0500 Subject: Product modeling when every product is custom I am trying to configure/modify OFBiz for our business. But I am having difficulties modeling our products. Any pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Our products are similar to photo prints: * Several standard sizes such as 4”x6”, 5”x7”, 12”x18”, … * We allow custom sizes such as 4.123”x6.321” that are made from the next bigger product (and priced accordingly) * Except for square products, product orientation can be landscape or portrait * Several material options such as matte, lustre, glossy finishes, ... * Several manufacturing options such as sharp or rounded corners, ... * Several bundle options such as just the print, the print ready for wall mount, the print ready for desk display, … And then there are a few unique aspects: * Each of our products has a serial number that we need to track. Even if a line item has a quantity of more than 1, each product will have a separate serial number. In that case, communication with the customer such as order confirmations should have only one entry/image per line item. * In case we have to reprint a product (defects, color did not turn out right), the replacement products need to be related to the originally ordered ones, but should have new and separate serial numbers. * We have regular production runs and would like to use the MFG functionality, but our serialized products are never put into inventory. They ship out to our customers right after they have been produced. And then there are the product images. That is my biggest headache. We need to associate a thumbnail of the customer supplied image with each product we ship. Order related communication and order history needs to show the customer supplied images for each product. We have URLs for these images and are otherwise very flexible in generating and storing derived images. Any suggestions to how this can be modeled with virtual products, product variants, … would be greatly appreciated. I am not looking for complete solutions, just broad strokes. I assume we will have to implement a custom “make product from customer image” service that combines predefined virtual/variant products with the customer image and serial number so that OFBiz knows where to get the unique images for each product. Thank you for your help in advance and keep up the great work! Jürgen
