Hello Graeme, Indeed, sharing a single product in average cost mode between multiple companies is not yet supported in OpenERP v6.0, nor is having different cost prices depending on the company. For such cases, we currently recommend duplicating the products, to avoid the obvious side effects you mentioned (duplicating should not disrupt the product list if each product is only visible in its own company).
In the future we plan to support this by making the cost (and public price) property fields, so they may be different in each company, like the G/L accounts. Perhaps the costing method could be a per-company property too, though I'm not sure this makes sense... What about per- company procurement/supply method, or per-company UoM, etc? At some point the product will turn out to be an empty shell with just a name, making the software more complicated and harder to maintain, for no good reason (people could just make multiple products with the same name). Anyway, we are discussing these options within R&D, so any additional feedback on this is welcome. Note that this will certainly require major technical changes in many dependencies, algorithms and reports, so it cannot be done in 6.0 (normal fields and property fields are quite different beasts). Thanks for your feedback! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of C2C OERPScenario, which is subscribed to the OpenERP Project Group. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778170 Title: product - average and standard cost not multicompany Status in OpenERP Modules (addons): Triaged Bug description: To reproduce, create some companys say HQ with child Company A and Company B create a product which is visible in all company at Average cost Receive product in Company A. Average Cost updates correctly in Company A. but it also updates Company B and parent. For standard price just go to company B and change a standard price product and it will propagate throughout Surely in a multicompany environment we must allow for different cost prices for each company. And if using average cost it is clearly incorrect to take the average cost of another company (or the combined results) as your own average cost. As a side note we must also allow different companies to use different cost methods for the same products. Additionally it violates all sorts of security rules - a company B user should not be able to affect the accounts of Company A and these 2 fields determine the values for a very large number of journal entries. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/778170/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~c2c-oerpscenario Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~c2c-oerpscenario More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
