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Swapnil Shah closed OFBIZ-7355. ------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: (was: Upcoming Branch) Shared the business requirement to proceed on design and implementation > OFBIZ-6964: Document finalized business requirements to support replenishment > planning through any inter-company facility > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OFBIZ-7355 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7355 > Project: OFBiz > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: manufacturing, order, product > Affects Versions: 15.12.01 > Reporter: Swapnil Shah > Assignee: Swapnil Shah > Attachments: screenshot-1.png > > > Here are the most common set of business requirement to support product level > replenishment within a given facility(store/warehouse) via any inter-company > facility (preferred warehouse/stocking facility) before raising the purchase > order from an outside vendors/suppliers. > In current standard OFbiz workflow there are essentially two basic types of > material requirements generated at product-facility level. Both of these can > be created manually or could be suggested by MRP engine: > * First, is "Product Requirement" which suggests that the given product is > going to be low or out of stock within any given facility in a given time > frame based on upstream demand signals within the supply chain and hence can > more commonly be treated as Purchase Requirement that need to be eventually > transformed as Purchase Orders to be raised from a given vendor/supplier > * Second, is "Internal Requirement" which suggests that the given product is > going to be low or out of stock within any given facility in a given time > frame based on upstream demand within the supply chain. But such products can > be internally manufactured(produced) and hence can more commonly be treated > as Production Requirement that need to be eventually transformed as > Production Order (Production Run). > *Gap* > Currently the OFbiz planning algorithm (aka MRP) generate the requirement by > only considering the supply available within the given facility. But there is > no planning logic built into the system which can support and look up the > supply availability in a complex supply chain setup where business could be > run using multiple facilities spread geographically. A more common examples > could be brick and mortar retail stores chain having multiple stores spread > across geographically. Or any manufacturing business that own multiple > production facilities and warehouse spread across geographically. > *Requirement* > There are many instances, where material visibility in a multi-facility setup > within an organization or company is not very accurately gauged. We would > need to start building an intelligent planning system that could gauge such > material availability across facilities and honor them while furnishing the > requirements around any product within any given facility. > Let's consider following use case (Please refer to attached screenshot for > reference) > !screenshot-1.png|width=800px! > : > * A retail chain has multiple stores and say a given physical store > 'Store_01' and is strategically located near two warehouse in the region say > Whse_01 & Whse_02, > * One centralized warehouse(Main/buffer) say 'Backup_Whse' that supplies > material to all the stores and regional warehouse > * Any retails store e.g. Store_01 shouldn't raise purchase order from any > outside vendor directly. > * As Store_01 is strategically located near Whse_01 & Whse_02, so system > should always suggest to replenish any product shortfall by first looking up > and pulling up available supply from Whse_01 & Whse_02 and then from > Backup_Whse in that order of priority. > * Banckup_Whse mostly works on push system and supplies the products to all > regional warehouse and physical stores. > Now we could design an OFbiz based replenishment planning that : > * Could allow to associate and rank the facilities(physical store/warehouse) > that could replenish the material at any other facility (physical > store/warehouse) > * Could suggest the "*Transfer Requirement*" by gauging the product shortfall > within any given facility product-facility at any given point of time by > * Could allow to configure and manage the setting at facility(ProductStore or > ProductFacility) level, to let planning engine know whether given facility > could replenish stock via Transfer Requirement from any other facility. If > not then it could take normal route of replenishment via Purchase Order or > Production Order route. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)