Posted by
Daniel Kunkel on
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Hi Christopher
I'm very glad that you are working on this, and working to share this
back with the community...
I'm no expert with all of this inventory stuff, but one thing you said
didn't quite make sense... Perhaps some of the gurus here can set us
both straight...
You said:
4. Just to confirm terminology: my script calcs requirement quantity
like
this:
requirementQuantity = reorderQuantity - availableToPromiseQuantity
Am I interpreting "reorderQuantity" properly? Or is
"reorderQuantity"
meant to be a fixed quantity that is ordered each time you order?
I think reorderQuantity is something that is different for each
supplier, and is based on minimumQuantity and OrderQuantityIncrements.
Would it make more sense to do something like...
requirementQuantity = minimumStock - incomingShipments -
availableToPromiseQuantity
At some point, to make OFBiz truly generic, we might want to think about
upgrading the inventory system to one that can track future inventory
requirements at multiple points in time. In the electronics industry
lead times can exceed 6 months... with numerous future
purchases/deliveries planned... It can get tricky to know if you can
sell X today, and still meet all of your promised deliveries.
Thanks
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 00:47 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote:
> 4. Just to confirm terminology: my script calcs requirement quantity
> like
> this:
> requirementQuantity = reorderQuantity - availableToPromiseQuantity
> Am I interpreting "reorderQuantity" properly? Or is
> "reorderQuantity"
> meant to be a fixed quantity that is ordered each time you order?
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