I have a use case wherein there is a website and a physical retail store.
Have created separate stores and facilities (for example, retail warehouse and
webstore warehouse) for each of them in OFBiz.
Both the stores share the same catalog/products.
However, both have different inventory management rules for the same product.
The inventory quantities can be independently managed via the facilities tab for
a product.
Where the difficulty crops up is the management of Requirements. A product can
have only one Requirement Method Enum Id (RMEI).
The webstore warehouse is the main facility at which replenishment from
suppliers and order fulfilment and shipping happens. The retail warehouse is
just stocked via indents from the webstore warehouse and does not issue direct
purchase orders to suppliers. The desired behaviour is that whenever item
quantity is below ATP for the retail warehouse, then a request to re-stock is
sent to the webstore warehouse. If it has ample quantity in stock(ATP) then it
should approve and initiate a transfer else it should generate a requirement
based on the RMEI.
I did find something in Opentaps to handle this situation but would prefer
something in pure OFBiz. I can't fathom a way to handle this scenario out of the
box in OFBiz or may be I am missing something obvious. Before I embark on some
customisation, would like to have the community's thoughts on it as this seems a
pretty routine scenario which others may have already encountered.
All thoughts are welcome.
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Shrenik Bhura
Founder, Intelliant
Intelliant: Consulting and Development of Free / Open Source Software
