[ http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/browse/OFBIZ-427?page=comments#action_13753 ] Jacopo Cappellato commented on OFBIZ-427: -----------------------------------------
Some Ideas (taken from a mail I've recently sent to the user list): let's say that your forecast is to sell 10000 t-shirt of type "A" in the next 2 months; the t-shirt "A" are virtual product that are available in two sizes, S and L. You would like to simulate (materials and resources needed) the manufacturing process to create 10000 t-shirt of type "A", regardless of their sizes. I'd recommend to implement something different: 1) introduce the concept of a "family of products"; this could be a special type of Product that is only used as a planning tool; in the example above, you could create a new product of type "family of products" to represent your type "A" t-shirts 2) create a bom for your family of products where each component is a variant product; for example: family "A" has two components, the variant product "t-shirt A size S" and "t-shirt A size L"; the bom coefficient is used here to forecast the number of sizes that will be sold (for example, 0.4 for S and 0.6 for L) 3) then you'll create one production run for the family "A" of 10000 units with start date in the future; the production run will never be executed (i.e. its components, the variant products, will not be taken from warehouse) 4) by running the MRP you'll get a simulation of the materials needed (to manufacture 4000 t-shirt of size S and 6000 t-shirt of size L) and it will generate the *requirements* for them (that once approved will become new production runs for real variant products). > MRP - implement sales forecast analysis > --------------------------------------- > > Key: OFBIZ-427 > URL: http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/browse/OFBIZ-427 > Project: [OFBiz] Open For Business > Type: New Feature > Components: manufacturing > Versions: SVN > Reporter: Jacopo Cappellato > Assignee: Jacopo Cappellato > Priority: Minor > > Original Estimate: 2 weeks > Remaining: 2 weeks > > MRP - implement sales forecast analysis > At the beginning of the simulation process, the MRP algorithm collects > information about real purchase orders, sales orders, production runs and > stock levels. > We should add to these the sales forecasts; this issue involves: > * ui and services to manage (create/edit/delete) sales forcasts > * entities to store them > * entities to store families of products (ProductCategories?) > * mods to the MRP process -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
