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Pierre Smits commented on OFBIZ-198:
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In current functionality, manufacturing is executed in a facility. In most setups both manufacturing area and inventory area are in the same facility (the plant, the premise, etc).
In that scenario, this issue is not a problem.
However in the scenario of doing manufacturing in a different facility than doing inventory management there are other aspects.
In such scenario inventory goods can (and must) be physically and administratively moved through transfers. This business process could be regarded as internal ordering (with requesting, approving, delivering and accepting). All this is covered in the transfer functionality in Warehousing application (contained in the product component).
Auto scheduling transfers would add to the complexity of the Manufacturing function. Given obvious delay issues and options to choose from (when with multiple warehouses), this would create extra complexities in the business process and in the technical solution. E.g. how to deal with transfer handling cost. These should add to the production cost. And how to handle scheduled production runs?
So, my suggestion is not to do this (for now). Also given that this aspect is more than 8 years old and not been requested to be resolved by other community members or worked on.
But facilitating a button to do suggest transfer request would be easier achievable.
As for running the MRP against multiple warehouses: this could/would be applicable as it fits with JIT aspects, but still the costing factor should be addressed.
> Manufacturing and warehouses (facilities)
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> Key: OFBIZ-198
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-198> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: manufacturing
> Reporter: Jacopo Cappellato
> Priority: Minor
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> Manufacturing and warehouses.
> At now, all the manufacturing processes are implemented considering only one warehouse (facility).
> So, for example:
> * a production run is created for a facility and so it stocks out the components from the facility and it stocks in the manufactured product into the same facility
> * the MRP is run against one facility
> It would be nice to extend the manufacturing processes to deal with more than one facilities.
> So for example:
> * for production runs, we could auto schedule inventory transfers from/to warehouses and the manufacturing facility
> * for MRP: we could run the MRP against a group of facilities (where the facilities are associated with different roles: main warehouse, secondary warehouse, manufacturing facility etc...)
> This task is a rather big one, and I'll not work over it in the short term, but it's nice to have an issue to remember this.
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