A supplier is different than a vendor. A supplier sells you goods or
services. A vendor sells goods or services through your marketplace.
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 3/10/2014 9:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Yes, and drop shipment party is defined in Ofbiz as a "SUPPLIER" if I am right .
So what is the real difference with a VENDOR then.
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques Le Roux [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 5:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Vendor Management
To complete Pierre's explanation (I hope not to confuse things)
I always thought that vendors as defined at
https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditVendorProduct?productId=GZ-1000
and
https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/ap/control/findVendors
are of the external category, like 3rd parties on Amazon. From
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1893 those are different from
suppliers, so
I can see only that.
But I never used this functionality, nor know what is really implemented for
that, apart handling parties (I think nothing else).
So the data model is ready and some around (CRUD and find services mostly).
But you have to do the rest (you may have a vendor per store if you have
multi-stores or also multi-vendors per store)
Note that there are also drop shipment examples available OOTB. I see them
related somehow...
Jacques
Le 10/03/2014 15:26, Pierre Smits a écrit :
Ioannis,
First of all, ensure that you have your (business) definitions straight and
that the parties you communicate with understand and share your definitions.
The noun Vendor can have (and probably will have) different meanings to
different persons depending on the domain the work in/come from. According
to investopedia it can be both a person or a business entity. And that (as
should be regarded as obvious) as wel an internal party as an external
entity.
>From your descriptions I gathered that it is a person executing a business
process, but whether he is part of your organisation or not I could not
determine.
If he is part of your organisation, he could be regarded as internal sales,
sales representative, sales back office clerk, or any other role you have
defined in your organisation. If he is external, is he then a sales
representative working on commission basis or a reseller (who buys and
sells for own risk and profit).
Determining (and communicating) such aspects up front enables your peers to
comprehend the challenge/opportunity to the fullest and helps them to help
you in finding the answer and/or solution.
Regards,
Pierre Smits
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