Hi BJ, On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:21 PM, BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> wrote:
> the parts are there the business logic is not > I see few layers of business logic > one layer is basic to all countries > the next layer is specific to EU contries. > the next layer is your customization for your way of doing business. > > the combining of PO like a forwarder would do is not really supported > and needs some evaluation. > I don't think combination of PO is really necessary. I think if I create different PO using the source company with the shipping info of the international carrier source warehouse and then create one unique PO from the source company to the destination company that merges all the items of the different PO created before could work. What do you think? > it would be a agregite type of process. > you would need, a couple of inspection and re-organization points or > have a blanket PO to the forwared that associated the other PO. > you could also do something with shipping groups. > May you give more details about shipping groups. I'm trying to define the following with no success: - I've my source company who creates a purchase order using the international carrier. When I'm creating the purchase order I can't associate it with a shipping group for it because the source company doesn't have an associated store so no facility is defined. Even if I try to 'Ship to another party' and set my international carrier doesn't work. I've checked the code a little bit and I saw that 'shipToPartyId' field of ShipSettings.groovy is only used when it's a sales order. May anyone tell me if this is correct? - I've also defined two more facilities and grouped them. One is used for the international carrier source warehouse and the other one for the international carrier destination warehouse and owned by the international party. I am trying to define a shipping route but I am very stuck with it. Thanks for your help! > > my 2cents off the top of my head. > > ========================= > BJ Freeman > http://bjfreeman.elance.com > Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation < > http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> > Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> > > Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist > > Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man > Linkedin > < > http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro > > > > > Jonatan Soto sent the following on 5/10/2010 9:35 AM: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm trying to implement the following scenario into Ofbiz but i prefer to > > consult here firstly just in case it's possible to do it OOTB: > > > > > > - Actors: Destination company, Source company, International Carrier, > > Suppliers, Tax authorities > > > > > > - In most cases a purchase order will be send by sea, but sometimes > could > > be send by air, it will depends of the urgency. The international > carrier > > will be the same using both methods. > > - Money exchange commission and fees should be charged in some way to > the > > products. Whislist: I will develop a gateway to the ECB (European > Central > > Bank) to get the currency rate automatically updated every day. They > provide > > the mechanism to integrate this into any application through XML so I > don't > > think it will be very difficult. > > > > > > - I have different suppliers in the source country and I often will > make > > orders grouping them. I usually use FCA incoterm but in some cases > could be > > EXW for different suppliers. EXW represents that my international > carrier > > picks up the order items and I will be charged for that. > > > > > > 1. Everytime a purchase order is generated and received by the > supplier, > > the items will be send to the international carrier warehouse located > in the > > source country. I also have control of a company, settled in the > source > > country, who will be the responsible of get the different invoices > from the > > suppliers, unify them and make one invoice using the source company > details. > > At this point port/airport charges of the source country will be > applied. > > 2. So, when the purchase orders reaches the destination port/airport > > charges of the will be applied. Once the orders successful passes the > > pertinent controls, the purchase order will be stored in the warehouse > of > > the international carrier for a while. At this time some some taxes > from the > > destination country will be applied (VAT, duty tax). > > 3. Finally, the international carrier sends me the purchase order to > my > > destination warehouse and give me the invoice including all the > expenses > > mentioned before plus the freight expenses and the invoice previously > > generated by my company of the source country. The freight expenses > are > > calculated in a different way depending on the service has been > chosen, eg: > > LCL (Groupage), FCL (Full container...) > > > > > > By now, I've created all the parties but don't know how to relate each > other > > in order to get this things sorted. I would like to get the total cost > for > > each product automatically calculated considering the volume and weight > of > > the purchase order and all taxes, commissions, etc. > > > > It is not my intention to get a free-consulting session. I merely want to > > know what is possible to do OOTB and what is not, so any kind of answers > > that provide me a guidance (even those require customization) are fine > and I > > will appreciate a lot. In fact I would like to include my experience > about > > this in the wiki (extracting this to a generic procedure). Perharps in > HEMP > > as a story for import/export? > > > > > > Thank you very much in advance. > > > > >
