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Thank you very much for that information, Rishi. I'll go ahead and try a few
> Hi Jürgen Reinold,
>
> Please find my responses in line and I'm hopeful it helps.
>
> --
> Rishi Solanki
> Manager, Enterprise Software Development
> HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd.
> Direct: +91-9893287847
>
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com>
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Jürgen Reinold
> <
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>
> > I am trying to configure/modify OFBiz for our business. But I am having
> > difficulties modeling our products. Any pointers/suggestions would be
> > greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Our products are similar to photo prints:
> >
> > * Several standard sizes such as 4”x6”, 5”x7”, 12”x18”, …
> >
>
> You will need to use virtual variant model of the product. There are
> many product already exists in demo data have the color and size
> options with them. Looks like you may only required sizes.
>
> >
> > * We allow custom sizes such as 4.123”x6.321” that are made from the
> next
> > bigger product (and priced accordingly)
> >
>
> Looks like such product won't be exists in system before they
> ordered. At the time of adding a item to cart you can use add non
> exists product to shopping cart as shopping cart item and when order
> is really placed enter the product into the system from cart.
>
> >
> > * Except for square products, product orientation can be landscape or
> > portrait
> >
> > * Several material options such as matte, lustre, glossy finishes, ...
> >
>
> Above both could be set as features of the product.
>
> >
> > * Several manufacturing options such as sharp or rounded corners, ...
> >
>
> Better to differentiate before manufacturing by adding features to
> product.
>
> >
> > * Several bundle options such as just the print, the print ready for
> wall
> > mount, the print ready for desk display, …
> >
>
> Categories them using ProductCategory.
>
> >
> > And then there are a few unique aspects:
> >
> > * Each of our products has a serial number that we need to track. Even
> if a
> > line item has a quantity of more than 1, each product will have a
> separate
> > serial number. In that case, communication with the customer such as
> order
> > confirmations should have only one entry/image per line item.
> >
>
> This is ootb available, you may need to look after the serialize and
> non-serialize inventory. In you case it should be serialize.
>
> >
> > * In case we have to reprint a product (defects, color did not turn out
> > right), the replacement products need to be related to the originally
> > ordered
> > ones, but should have new and separate serial numbers.
> >
>
> If you maintain the above point then it will automatically handle.
>
> >
> > * We have regular production runs and would like to use the MFG
> > functionality,
> > but our serialized products are never put into inventory. They ship out
> to
> > our
> > customers right after they have been produced.
> >
>
> Requirement data model and processes could be use here but not sure.
>
> >
> > And then there are the product images. That is my biggest headache. We
> > need to
> > associate a thumbnail of the customer supplied image with each product
> we
> > ship. Order related communication and order history needs to show the
> > customer
> > supplied images for each product. We have URLs for these images and are
> > otherwise very flexible in generating and storing derived images.
> >
>
> Assuming, all the custom product will be added as variant in the system
> for
> some virtual with standard size. Either you can specify them variant
> and use specific image content type or you can simply store the url
> some where in order item related entities. Either directly in
> OrderItem or OrderItemAttribute as you said you will have URLs.
>
> >
> > Any suggestions to how this can be modeled with virtual products,
> product
> > variants, … would be greatly appreciated. I am not looking for complete
> > solutions, just broad strokes.
> >
> > I assume we will have to implement a custom “make product from customer
> > image”
> > service that combines predefined virtual/variant products with the
> customer
> > image and serial number so that OFBiz knows where to get the unique
> images
> > for
> > each product.
> >
> > Thank you for your help in advance and keep up the great work!
> >
> > Jürgen
> >