This seems a good way to me. You might be interested to look at more convoluted cases but not necessarily https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Sync+Setup+Notes+and+Example
Jacques iwolf wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am looking for a way to use the stock information from an external system > (from a supplier) used for the ecommerce application. > > The information I get as a file: > > product_id, stock_count (current stock quantitiy in the external facility) > > From my current understanding of ofbiz I would do it this way: > > 1) Create external system as facility (supplier). > 2) Creating a service that turns the external stock information into a XML > import file (inventory_item) - with a predefined- for each product static - > inventory_item_id. This gives me the possibilty to overwrite an existing > inventory item within that facility. > > My question is: am I going the right way or did I overlook something. > > Any comment would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Ingo
