Posted by
davidnwelton on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-Hello-world-tp136505.html
Hello,
I have inherited an e-commerce site + stocking system + other bits and
pieces written on PHP and Python on top of Mysql. I'm investigating
other approaches, although since the current system does work, we may
only end up using ideas from what I find out there. OFBiz is one of
the first things I found, and it looks interesting. I'm trying to get
a handle on it, but it's pretty big, so while I've tried to read up
first, forgive me if any of my questions end up being the moral
equivalent of asking whether a mountain bike takes leaded or unleaded
fuel... Unfortunately I do not yet have a free machine where I can
set this system up and run it to test it out.
1) First up, some of the 'scripts' seem kind of intimidating. What's
the background for the XML stuff like:
<if-compare-field field-name="availableToPromiseTotal"
to-field-name="productFacility.minimumStock" operator="less"
type="Double">
it looks like it's extremely painful if you have to write that kind of
code by hand. Is their creation somehow automated either with a GUI
or from some other source code format?
2) I'm curious how ofbiz would stack up against some issues that our
current system seems to have. For example:
An order goes out to a client, who then sends back one of the items
from the order. My research indicates that so far, ofbiz is still
with me. Then, an operator here mistakenly enters the returned item
as a returned order, rather than just a returned item. Currently the
answer is "go fiddle with the database to roll it back". Yuck.
We get orders in from suppliers, then need to store the products until
all the items to send out to a particular client are ready. We use an
in-house bar code system for this. How hard is something like that to
integrate into ofbiz? How about when a client's order is ready,
printout out a list of things to send? (This is pick/pack, right?)
Continuing with this one... a lot of our orders are for single items,
so instead of stocking all the items that arrive from the supplier and
then pulling them back out again, a better algorithm would be to short
circuit this and put all the single-items aside for immediate
shipping.
There are other things like this, but this ought to give me an idea of
how things might work...
Thankyou for your time,
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David N. Welton
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http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
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