That's not quite true... you can change catalogs and stores on the
fly. In fact, for the most part things are flexible enough that as-is
or with small changes you can usually accommodate whatever is needed...
-David
On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:49 AM, BJ Freeman wrote:
there is the rub.
to have different catalogs assigned to different stores requires a
different website, internal to ofbiz.
now that can be under one Domain which is the Mall website.
each store would be
http://www.mallwebsite.br/store1
http://www.mallwebsite.br/store2
http://www.mallwebsite.br/store3
http://www.mallwebsite.br/store4
http://www.mallwebsite.br/store200
everything else is doable as you laid out.
Each would have its own Facility for Stock.
You can use inventory transfer to have one facility to do the shipping
another scenario is you can have all the catalogs under one website
and
they select which one. this would have one theme, which to model after
the real B&M Factory Outlet malls is not what they have. Each store
has
its own look & feel.
Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/17/2009 5:34 AM:
Dear BJ,
2009/7/17 BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net>
there probably need some clarification you said a mall.
that usually is one website that has a website per store.
I agree with you but it`s not the case here.
Just one WEBSITE. 200 catalogs from different Factory Stores.
Customer does
checkout at once. The WEBSITE collects the customer money, send
purchase
orders to each Factory Store. Collect each packages from each
store, group
then together and send then to the customer at once. The website
will then
debt it's commission from every purchase order and send the
difference to
the each factory store. It's not a resale operation because the
WEBSITE will
not BUY and RESALE goods. It's a sort of commercial representation.
The company that will hold the WEBSITE is the COMPANY that already
holds a
BIG OUTLET MALL. Each factory store has it's own brand names and
it's own
commercial rules.
It's more like a commercial representative operation, that sales
products
from several suppliers. Product and Price are ruled by the factory.
Revenue
comes from commission. As the commercial representative collects
the money,
he will send the factory the money already without the commission.
Ex.: The customer (a reseller) comes to the website to buy products
from
several suppliers. Customer pays R$ 1.000,00 to the WEBSITE to buy
products
from 10 different suppliers. Each store receives a R$ 100,00
purchase order
and pack it up. The WEBSITE collects each pack to send then all
together to
the customer. The WEBSITE then pay each store R$ 90,00, wich is R$
100,00 -
10%. The factory store SALES 'directly' to the customer. The
WEBSITE bills
the factory store a sales commission.
so I am assuming your speaking of the mall website. then each store
would be a clone website with its own productsStoreID defined in
ofbiz
Each store Website can have its own layout and Catalog.
All stores share the same Product info, meaning there is only one
product in ofbiz. The catalog decides if that product is included.
Where I find the problem is that these projects take more manhours
than
people envisions.
Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/17/2009 2:35 AM:
Yes, we are the only company collecting money. There's only one
website
also.
2009/7/16 BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net>
as long as you are the only company collecting money then the
current
accounting will work
Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:07 PM:
I'm not going to keep accounting for each store and will not
have any
system
integration with then. All the horizontal integration will be
done
manually.
Customer will browse the products from all the stores, buy
several
products
from several stores, pay at once. When we check the payment, the
customer
order should generate several back orders, but the stores will
sale
direct
to the customer and we will pay then without our comission.
2009/7/16 BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net>
to keep accounting, and access separate, but have a single
interface
for
the shipping department would take some customization.
it would also take an instance of ofbiz running for each
store, the
way
I envision it.
there may be other ways, would have to get detailed
requirements to go
further.
Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 12:45 PM:
I'm not sure it's about sub-companies, because they are
independent
companies that have in commom a factory store in an specifc
outlet
mall.
The
outlet mall team has a website and intends to create an e-
commerce
website
to allow resellers to buy from the stores without coming to
mall.
2009/7/16 BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net>
this has been answered before so let me take different
approach.
The model was for A company and Sub-companies related to the
Company
Code can be written that allows this.
it is not 100% OOTB though.
Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 12:01 PM:
Saudações,
I'd like to know how much Ofbiz could help me deploy an
eletronic
outlet
mall. Resellers will login, add products from several
diferent
factory
stores and checkout. Ofbiz should create one order for each
store
and
the
eletronic outlet mall staf will receive all the goods from
all the
stores,
pack it and mail it to the custommer. Revenue is based on
COMMISSIONS,
so
we'll not resale anything.
TIA,
Leonardo Ruoso
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