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No, returns can be tracked as serialized or non-serialized inventory.
>Hi Si, and anyone else with an opinion on the matter...
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>Would returns inventory tracking have to use serialized inventory
>tracking?
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>Would it be enough to have companies that want to track inventory setup
>a "virtual" facility for each location a particular item could be...
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>One company could setup a general "returned" facility that would track
>the number of returned units in any of a dozen places, while another
>might setup separate facilities for Tom, Joe and Final Testing, and
>track the appropriate stock moves between each...
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>The tricky part would seem to involve handling the inventory splitting
>that would occur when multiple InventoryItems were returned. For
>example, if 4 units were returned together and 1 was still brand new, 1
>needed to go thru final test, and Tom getting the last 2.
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>Even as I ask this question, I realize that RFID is coming in very fast,
>and that is going to make serialized inventory tracking more common.
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>Thanks
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>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:53 -0800, Si Chen wrote:
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>>That's good a point, Daniel.
>>
>>Right now when an item is returned, the comments field of InventoryItem
>>has something like "Returned from RA #....", but there is no data model
>>relationship from return item to inventory item. In other words, no
>>easy way for you to know how many of the return items have actually been
>>returned or go to them.
>>
>>But this is also kind of tricky because serialized inventory would mean
>>that there is not a 1:1 correspondence between return item and inventory
>>item. So this would probably mean another entity altogether to track
>>which multiple InventoryItems may be related to a ReturnItem.
>>
>>Anybody else on this one?
>>
>>Si
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>>Daniel Kunkel wrote:
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>>>Hi Si
>>>
>>>That looks really good...
>>>
>>>Are there ways of keeping a complete inventory (and location?) of the
>>>returned items?
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>>>Will the new changes integrate the process of returning goods right back
>>>into inventory for products that are still new?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Daniel
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>>>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:27 -0800, Si Chen wrote:
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>>>>Hi everybody -
>>>>
>>>>Please let us know what you think of these enhancements to the Returns
>>>>data model:
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http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/browse/OFBIZ-568>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Si
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