Pushed "Enter" too quickly, rest of my reply inline On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hi Craig, > > This would be a good time to buy "The Data Model Resource Book" by Len > Silverston. OFBiz data model is heavily based on that book (volume one) and > I should say it is an excellent read even if you don't use OFBiz. > > With that being said I'll take a shot at answering some of your questions > inline... > > On Apr 27, 2017 5:24 AM, "Craig Parker" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to nail down what some of these names are, and not having much > luck with some of it. If there's a glossary anywhere that I haven't seen > yet, can someone point me in the direction? > > Organization = The over-arching business? The company that owns all the > manufacturing, distribution, and sales? > > > An organization is just a party. However there is a special party role > called INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO (yes missing N) which denotes the main business > being served by the system. The main entities to look at are "Party", > "PartyRole", "RoleType" > > > If you've got a manufacturing plant, a retail store, a website (for online > sales) and a hot dog stand, I was initially thinking these were all > Facilities while noodling through some old docs. But I'm not so sure after > looking at sample data and the menu options. > > Some are facilities and some are stores. > > Parties are any employees or customers. Vendors too? > > or any company, or anything else. A team, a family, whatever. There are two main types of parties: Person and PartyGroup. The latter could be an organization or anything else that represents a group of people. > > I've got more, but will stew on these for the moment. I'm actually trying > to concoct a small "story" that even my kids will understand. Other folks > may be in same the boat as me where they understand a whole process, but > the names we're using in OFBiz mean something else in whatever ERP they're > coming from. The one I use has separate AP and AR terms (terms as in "pay > by the 10th, get 10% off your bill" or "pay after the 15th and get a 2% > finance charge"), but in OFBiz it looks like everything is lumped into > something called Agreements, and you can have a vendor or a customer using > the same (I call it terms) agreement. > > I'm guessing there are a ton of these kinds of things. I see them spelled > out to some degree in the "official" docs I've got (from 2006-ish) but it > isn't really spelled out enough for me at least to understand. > > >
