Bruno I guess "regular" is in the eye of the beholder. For my clients, the "regular" way was to import their existing inventory. As it was sold, more was purchased. When it was purchased, a second (or third) InventoryItem record was created increasing the quantity on hand. (At some point, I am going to modify that code so that new InventoryItem records are not created if the cost and supplier are the same.) Doing it this way keeps an audit trail. I NEVER allow the users to manually adjust inventory. There is a single person responsible for figuring out and correcting why ATP/OH != physical counts.
The normal process for them is to write a purchase order and email/send it to the supplier. They then ship the goods. When the goods are received, the shipping clerk receives the purchase order, modifying the quantities as needed. This creates an invoice for Accounts Payable, handles the GL details and increases the quantity on hand that can then be sold. Unlike like you, I have "require inventory" flag to N. My users (sales clerks as they don't currently have an ecommerce site) can then sell an item and have a backorder (actually a requirement) automatically generated. The purchasing agent then generates orders from the backorder requirements. I have spent two months modifying this purchasing/backorder code heavily, so I don't fully remember how it worked before, but I think this is standard behavior OOTB. Skip -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Busco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:37 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: How to set the quantity of product available to the store? Skip, I have imported the demo inventory data, I am fine with them but I would like to understand what is the normal way to change the available inventory amount in ofbiz so that they are available to the eshop. Is the purchase order you suggest the "regular" way to change available amounts in inventory? (apart of the manual changing of the records) -Bruno 2008/4/17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bruno > > For me, I imported the existing inventory data and with it came the onhand > amounts. If your not importing data, you can create a purchase order and > receive it. You could also manually modify InventoryItem record(s) but > thats a pain if you have lots to do and you loose the InventoryItemDetail. > > Skip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruno Busco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:02 PM > To: user@ofbiz.apache.org > Subject: How to set the quantity of product available to the store? > > > Hi, > a very basic question... > > What is the right way to change the available quantity of a product? > I have set the store "require inventory" flag to Y so that now "out of > stock" message is displayed in the product ecommerce page (and I like > this). > But how to let ofbiz know that I have pieces available to be sold? > > Many thanks, > > -Bruno > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1377 - Release Date: > 4/14/2008 > 9:26 AM > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1377 - Release Date: > 4/14/2008 > 9:26 AM > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1377 - Release Date: 4/14/2008 9:26 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1377 - Release Date: 4/14/2008 9:26 AM
