Re: Managing the status for non serialized inventory items
Posted by
Jacopo Cappellato-3 on
Jun 04, 2008; 7:06pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Managing-the-status-for-non-serialized-inventory-items-tp193584p193586.html
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:13 PM, David E Jones wrote:
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> On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to add support for the status for non serialized
>> inventory items (right now the status is used only for serialized
>> items).
>> The idea is to add a new status item for "Damaged" inventory (and
>> maybe "On Hold" for inventory under inspection); the inventory
>> items with this status will be excluded by the inventory counting
>> algorithm and also by the inventory reservation service.
>> The main goal is to add the ability to keep into the warehouse non
>> serialized inventory items but don't use them in orders etc... (at
>> least until they are fixed), but don't just remove them from the
>> system (as it happens when you do a manual inventory variance).
>>
>> What do you think? Can I go on with this?
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> It's an interesting idea. Right now all damaged/held/etc inventory
> is treated per unit, ie as serialized inventory. When returns are
> received each item is evaluated individually and tracked that way.
>
> If I understand where you are coming from, this becomes a problem
> when you receive 1000 damaged widgets and would have to create a
> record for each one.
>
Yes, this is the exactly the scenario I have in mind.
And maybe another one could be this: I have the suspect that the items
in an inventory item could be damaged and I schedule an inspection...
in the meantime I want to make sure the items are not reserved for new
orders; so I change the status to "On Hold" until the inspection is
done.
Thanks,
Jacopo
> With that in mind, perhaps this might be a good way to make the
> management easier without any data structure change, though there
> could be a number of code changes needed.
>
> -David
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