Dear Andrew, Please remember there are 2 different ID's when you are doing inventory: 1. Product ID 2. Inventory ID
Normally product ID is not equal to Inventory ID as you would like to associate a same Product ID received by different PO's to be traceable. So you have inventory ID. Every time you receive a product it would be a different inventory ID since you have received this lot different. I think its very good. In some other system the same inventory id is called Inventory Journal ID (since they track Inventory journal). Now in general case when you check Physical Inventory it can be by Product ID or Inventory ID. You can customize ofbiz for either way they way you want the report to be. I was initially also confused with inventory id's but now its clear each inventory id is in fact a inventory journal id which tracks if there is a reserved inventory which sales order it is reserved for. In case of Purchase order you know which inventory item is received by which purchase order. There is no clear documentation on it. But may be you can find something at opentaps http://www.opentaps.org/ site. Thanks With best regards, Vikrant -----Original Message----- From: Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年12月14日 12:52 To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Confused about Inventory Items I'm apparently missing something about the way inventory works, but hey I'm still learning. I have set up a product (Gearbox) with a few selectable features. (Make, model, quality, year) Or rather created some Feature Groups which are then attached to my Category of "used parts". and Gearbox is product of that category. Now if I go my facility and receive inventory of 1 Gearbox there is no way to select what the values features are . eg make= honda, model=civic, quality=damaged, year=1990. I would have thought an inventory item (Which I now have) would have to have those features set. On I suspect a similar note I never have anything in Physical Inventory and in general have no idea what that tab is for. I expect there is just some user documentation on Facilities I haven't found that would explain all this. Thanks for any pointers. Andrew ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.1/1183 - Release Date: 2007-12-13 9:15 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.1/1183 - Release Date: 2007-12-13 9:15
