Using Ofbiz for delivery management

[Lasantha Wimalasena]

Hi
I'm new to OfBiz and intending to use the software for small SCM business including delivery management. I'm in the process of trying out and evaluating the software.

Does Ofbiz support delivery management - i.e. tracking orders and vehicles and monitoring? The requirement is to see vehicles on a Map and get real time data from the vehicles back to the system.

Appreciate if any direction for further information or modules which could potentially be extended to support above functionality if it doesn't exist.

Thank you
Lasantha

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi Lasantha,

Your message has been moderated.

Please subscribe to the user ML for such questions and then use your email client
See why here http://ofbiz.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

You will get a better support , it's more fair to share with everybody  and people can answer you on the ML rather than directly to you
The wider the audience the better the answers you might get

Also it's more work for moderators who have to accept your messages as long as you have not subscribed.
I'll personally no longer accept them (other moderators still could)

Thanks

This said, OFBiz has a lot of thing out of the box, but does not have a real logistic module available. So it does not support delivery management by
itself. It relies on external services like UPS. I suggest you have a look at

https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/ListShipmentMethodTypes

For mapping: https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/ExampleOsmGeoLocationPointSet1

You might also be interested by this discussion https://markmail.org/message/fzjg7gxuposdhh47

HTH

Jacques

Le 25/10/2019 à 06:02, Lasantha Wimalasena a écrit :

> Hi
> I'm new to OfBiz and intending to use the software for small SCM business including delivery management. I'm in the process of trying out and evaluating the software.
>
> Does Ofbiz support delivery management - i.e. tracking orders and vehicles and monitoring? The requirement is to see vehicles on a Map and get real time data from the vehicles back to the system.
>
> Appreciate if any direction for further information or modules which could potentially be extended to support above functionality if it doesn't exist.
>
> Thank you
> Lasantha
>

[Victor Hernadez]

Hi Lasantha,

Bad new: Certainly there is no too much development in place to support geo
data close as you described, at this time only a little set of screens and
widgets supports geo data (e.g. Postal Address
https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/partymgr/control/viewprofile?partyId=Company,Facility
Location
https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/facility/control/EditFacilityGeoPoint?facilityId=WebStoreWarehouse
 )

Good new: OFBiz db has a flexible data model and I believe that fixed_asset
and fixed_asset_geo_point tables could be a good starting point for a
custom development intended to support the required functionalities, you
might want to check below tables definition and its corresponding data
models https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Data+Model+Diagrams

|table_name
                         |column_name
                                                  |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|container_geo_point
                          |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|facility
                         |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|facility_location
                          |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|facility_location_geo_point
                          |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|fixed_asset_geo_point
                          |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|geo_point
                          |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|party_geo_point
                          |geo_point_id
                                                   |
|postal_address
                         |geo_point_id
                                                   |

Kind Regards,
Victor

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:18 AM Lasantha Wimalasena <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Hi
> I'm new to OfBiz and intending to use the software for small SCM business
> including delivery management. I'm in the process of trying out and
> evaluating the software.
>
> Does Ofbiz support delivery management - i.e. tracking orders and vehicles
> and monitoring? The requirement is to see vehicles on a Map and get real
> time data from the vehicles back to the system.
>
> Appreciate if any direction for further information or modules which could
> potentially be extended to support above functionality if it doesn't exist.
>
> Thank you
> Lasantha
>