Re: should expired inventoryitems still be reservable?

[David E. Jones]

Having a separate set of statuses for the non-serialized inv items would be 
best.

Would this sort of status fit into the business process you are trying to 
address, or is something like a date more natural?

-David


Si Chen wrote:

So should we create a new "INV_CANCELLED" or "INV_UNAVAIL"


Si




On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:07 PM, David E. Jones wrote:

status which basically means that this item is no longer available? And show it be of the INV_SERIALIZED_STTS type as well, or a new "INV_NONSERIAL_STTS"? Which would you prefer semantically--to call them "cancelled" or "unavailable" (which is what they are, but then other status items may imply they are unavailable as well.)

-David


Si Chen wrote:

Not that I'm aware of, but it is an interesting idea... For a serialized type inventory item you can set the status so the II is not available for reservation. For non-serialized type items the status is not used, but I suppose we could introduce something there...

Is there any other way to mark an inventory item as "off limits" for inventory reservations? I had thought an expiration date might be what I'm looking for, but it didn't work the way I thought, and I'm not sure I have time to do all of this right now.

Si
On Jul 7, 2006, at 9:59 AM, David E. Jones wrote:

Christian Geisert wrote:

Si Chen schrieb:

Hi.

Just noticed that if inventory items with InventoryItem.expireDate in the past are still being reserved against order items. Is this a bug?

I'd say yes. As an example companies producing food or drugs will be in

trouble if they are selling stuff with an exceeded expire date but I

has been reached.
So I think the default should be that inventory with an expire date in
the past shouldn't get reserved but maybe add an option (global, store
or product) to allow this.

could imagine there are companies who sell stuff even if the expire date

1. Ignore Expiration Date
2. Don't Sell After Expiration
3. Sell At A Discount After Expiration
4. ...





-David

I agree, for some products it may be important to still be able to sell it after expiration. Perhaps there are a few options that could be configured with an enum on the Product entity: On the other hand, maybe a true/false for allow sale after expiration is sufficient because the inventory can be re-assigned to another Product that represents the expired inventory and is sold in a special store or at a special discount. Either way, I'd say we shouldn't add a rule that makes it impossible to sell expired inventory unless it is configurable with a per-Product option (and like Christian said, perhaps with per-Store or other defaults).

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