Re: Managing the status for non serialized inventory items

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on Oct 12, 2009; 12:36pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Managing-the-status-for-non-serialized-inventory-items-tp193584p194364.html

Thanks

 

Jacques

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yes, the code should already be in the trunk

Jacopo


On Sep 25, 2008, at 10:21 PM, jacques.le.roux wrote:

>
> Hi Jacopo,
>
> Sorry I did no follow closely this thread. Did you commit some  
> related work
> ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques
>
>
> Jacopo Cappellato-3 wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:13 PM, David E Jones wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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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