2015-03-14 15:20 GMT+01:00 Mathias Behrle <mbeh...@m9s.biz>: > Hi all, > > it would be nice to find a generic approach for the following operations in > the > scope of many companies: > > - Handing out samples for inspection to the customer for evaluation and evtl. > later purchase.
You can add a new location (even one per customer) and make an internal move for that. If you eventually sell them, you should pick up that location (well, warehouse) in the sale. > - Lending goods to the customer. > - Leasing goods to the customer. > > All operations have in common, that the goods still are property of the > warehouse, but physically are at the customers place. > > The challenge: since those goods are just temporarily unavailable and are > expected to come back to the storage zone, they shouldn't trigger any > provisioning mechanisms like internal or purchase requests. So for all kind of > requests the goods should behave as being in a location of type storage, but > without being available for sales. > > I have setup the following scenario: > > The stock part: > > - Defined a location of type storage as a child of the primary storage zone, > which shall contain the goods temporarily not available. > - This should allow for correct processing of requests, since e.g. > generate_internal_shipment is called with_child=True. > Note: it currently doesn't behave correctly (3.4), the child locations don't > seem to be propagated to the parent location. > - The display of the available quantity should then be the storage zone > with_childs=False. > Note: the display is currently that way, but could also be part of the > bug mentioned above. > > The model part: > > May be > - there could be a model similar to sale, that will generate moves targeting > the temporary locations depicted above instead or additional to the customer > location Why not using an internal shipment? > - or some asset type like it is done in Nan-tics module pool. > > Does this sound reasonable? Other ideas? > > > -- > > Mathias Behrle > MBSolutions > Gilgenmatten 10 A > D-79114 Freiburg > > Tel: +49(761)471023 > Fax: +49(761)4770816 > http://www.m9s.biz > UStIdNr: DE 142009020 > PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0x8405BBF6 -- Albert Cervera i Areny Tel. 93 553 18 03 @albertnan www.NaN-tic.com
