Well people :) it is suppose to be an outsourced warehouse where we keep our products/equipment.... no e-commerce required :) I guess I should check ms-access/excel templates for ideas :)
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Mike Chabot" <mcha...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:51 AM To: "cf-talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Subject: Re: Inventory Management System > > It still isn't clear whether you are talking about an e-commerce store > where you ship products to customers or something more like a company > stock room. Regardless, I agree with Roger and I'm also unaware of > anything in the CF world that you can download that would meet your > needs. > > It is hard to answer your question without knowing what the > requirements are. Most inventory management systems I have seen are > specific to what is in the inventory, such as a computer equipment > inventory system, or a book inventory system. Both MS Excel and MS > Access have free inventory management templates. A pen and paper > attached to a clipboard is a great inventory management system in some > situations. > > -Mike Chabot > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Roger Austin<raust...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> ---- Arsalan Tariq Keen <arsalk...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> yes I did check RiaForge.org but couldn't find anything useful. I >>> basically >>> have to work on an inventory management system, the idea is simple... a >>> Warehouse which is used to kept equipment stock ... then requests are >>> made >>> for shipment either to or from the warehouse.... >> >> I have written a number of inventory-transaction systems over the years. >> I >> am not aware of an open source CF solution. It is usually straight >> forward >> in that you have a table of inventory records and a table for >> transactions. >> After that, you can make it as complicated as you like. You can get into >> details like status, reporting, etc. >> A lot of the inventory-transaction control system complexity comes from >> the >> actual, physical procedures issues, not the database design. I would >> suggest >> you really do a lot of upfront analysis of the processes before you start >> looking at the design. Also, keep the end users in the team if you can >> since >> they sometimes have hidden processes that you will find out about after >> you >> have done a lot of initial design. >> Good luck, Roger >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:324055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
