Re: [OFBiz] Users - Automatic Purchasing

Posted by Si Chen-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-Automatic-Purchasing-tp136301p136302.html

It would be nice to have some automated purchase order creation.

But, how is "Purchase orders will be automatically created, and the user
can approve them or cancel them" going to be really different than
"Requirements are automatically created, and the user can create
purchase orders from them or cancel them"? Might you be writing a lot of
code to support essentially the same business process.

Primary supplier sounds like a good idea. Maybe we should have that.
Anybody else?

Si

Christopher Farley wrote:

>For various reasons, I do not want to use the OFBiz Order Requirements to
>automate purchasing for my business. I would rather duplicate the
>functionality of my existing purchasing system. This will also be my first
>attempt to create an OFBiz application, so I'm hoping somebody will tell
>me if I'm re-inventing the wheel here.
>
>My application will automatically generate purchase orders based upon the
>ProductFacility entity's minimumStock and reorderQuantity. There will be
>a screen for the user to select:
>   [] Facility - which facility are you ordering for?
>   [] Supplier, or "All Suppliers"
>   [] Product, or "All Products"
>   [] ATP/QOH Preference: Should we use the ATP or QOH numbers to generate
>      the purchase order?
>   [] Order Quantity Preference: if the suggested order quantity is less
>      than the supplier's minumum order quantity, then does the user want
>      to omit the item, or increase the quantity to match the vendor's
>      minimum order quantity?
>
>Clicking a "Generate" button will examine the inventory at that facility.
>Each item that has a ATP/QOH less than the minimumStock will be ordered
>up to the reoderQuantity. Purchase orders will be automatically created,
>and the user can approve them or cancel them.
>
>MAJOR ISSUE:
> o "Primary Suppliers" need to be defined. Because each product can and
>    often does have multiple suppliers, there needs to be a notion of
>    a Primary Supplier. This would ideally be part of the ProductFacility
>    entity, but I could create a new entity called, say,
>    ProductFacilityPrimarySuppliers to avoid messing with the native
>    ofbiz entities.
>
>
>I currently use a system like this, and I don't think I can live without
>it. Does this seem like a reasonably non-complicated OFBiz cusomization
>project?  Would anybody else find this valuable, or does this somehow
>violate some sort of 'best practices' with regard to OFBiz purchasing
>management?
>
>  
>

 
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