On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:06:49 +1100, Simon Haines wrote: > Hi, I'm looking at properly organising the accounting of my girlfriend's > business and was wondering if LedgerSMB can help... > > She's a jeweller and does not sell directly to customers, but loans her > items to galleries who then display them for sale (with their markup). > Every month or so each gallery sends her a list of items sold that month > and requests an invoice. Her accounting kit needs to have some sort of > inventory management (can warehousing cover this?) where a partner > location is assigned stock and then the items in their stock list can be > turned into sales invoices if required, or transferred back to the main > 'warehouse' (when items aren't sold by galleries, they are returned). In > this regard, she does not directly make sales to customers. > > I remember reading some months ago that LedgerSMB is proposing an > inventory management feature. Is this still on the cards? Can LedgerSMB > handle this particular requirement without kludges and hacks? I know an > ERP like TinyERP or OpenBravo can cover this scenario, but she's a > one-person show and ERP is simply overkill. I like the size and scope of > LedgerSMB as a good solution for her, I just can't see how (from reading > the manual) I can set it up to cover the gallery scenario. > > Thanks for any advice on offer, > Simon.
I think it would be a good fit. The multiple warehouses could represent the consignment shops. You'll have transfer events between warehouses. If it works out, We could probably benefit from a consignment workflow in the documentation. This would seem to be a common objective for small business users. Will the jewelry parts be stock items (with a shared SKU) or unique pieces (with their own SKU and/or a serial number)? Chris Travers has termed these 'comparable' and 'noncomparable' in my previous questions about the subject. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
