Hey Jim, I found these diagrams way too late in the process of evaluating ofbiz, they are phenomenally useful for figuring out OFBiz’s terminology for how it treats things like packages vs. shipments vs. products vs. inventory items, etc and how they are related internally.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Data+Model+Diagrams --Paul ---------- Paul Mandeltort | Marco Specialties Inc +1-512-394-8119 | [email protected] On May 31, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Jim S <[email protected]> wrote: > Adrian, Pierre, thanks for your feedback. > > Pierre I may not have been through in my analysis but I would like to > mention few points. The shipment logistics provider basically comes under > the distribution logistics which involves > 1. Receiving the packages from client. > 2. Storing the packages in the warehouse at a certain location, we call it > a distribution centre. This is need for picking later. > 3. Picking the packages and deliver to the customer. > > The shipment or packages from the client is an incoming shipment to the > logistics so I think best way would be to associate the incoming shipment > to a purchase order in ofbiz. Receiving the shipment will create necessary > information in the ofbiz. There is an interesting shipment type available > in ofbiz i.e. transfer I think it can be used since the shipment is really > transferred from the client to the logistics and from logistics to the > customer? > > The next step is to pick the packages, lade vehicle & provide a detail of > the packages (address information, packages information) on a sheet to the > driver. We can utilize the pick sheet to create the picking and delivery > information. I think we may need to rewrite code for certain part of the > order picking in ofbiz to model it for logistics. Once the packages are > delivered, the shipment status can be updated in ofbiz. > > > -- > Thanks, > Jim
