Posted by
davidnwelton on
Dec 08, 2005; 9:44am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-order-pick-tp136655p136657.html
> stock moves are different from inventory xfer: stock moves happen within
> the same warehouse between a bulk location and a pick location;
Ah, ok, that wasn't obvious. I've never dealt with warehouses before,
so my mental model is basically what I see at work, where the process
is a bit simpler: every day, we have a list of customer orders that
have been completed by the arrival of products that round out their
orders. For each order, a pick list is generated, and the products
are gathered, packaged up, and sent.
> inventory xfers happen between two warehouses.
> You can define bulk and pick location in the Facility-->Location tab
> You can define 'stock move' rules in the Catalog-->Edit
> Product-->Locations tab.
Thanks - I'll play with that some when I go back to work tomorrow.
I'll take advantage of the documentation deal, too, and look through that.
I don't know if it contains a "walkthrough", but I think that would be
a useful addition to people trying to evaluate what ofbiz is capable
of. More than anything, I'm curious how it scales in "people terms"
at each step of the process. The website front-end scalability is a
technology issue, but I would need to make sure that processes are
automated as much as possible, with supplier orders not requiring
extensive human intervention - basically, I think I would want just an
HTML table displaying orders to sign off on, and an interface to drill
down should someone want to examine the details. We try to stock as
few products as possible, and yet provide access to millions that are
stocked by many suppliers, so it's critical to be able to turn a
customer order into a supplier order quickly, once we have accumulated
enough items to request from that supplier that makes it worthwhile to
place an order.
Of course the technology has to scale too. I'll see about loading one
of our catalogs up, and see if anything looks suspiciously slow.
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David N. Welton
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