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We have primary suppliers too. Each supplier will have their own price and
Coincidently, we're currently working on porting our inventory module to OFBiz.
Our current non-Ofbiz software does exactly what Christopher described. We don't
> 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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