Hi Jim, I share the same view as Pierre that you should not be using the purchase order for it.
Your workflow should be something like this: 1) When packages arrive, you should create a Sales Order for this. In this case, you need to add function to allow editing the description of each sales order line item. 2) Approval of Sales Order 3) Receive the inventory via product. OFBiz allows receiving product without PO. You need to add function for OFBiz to support products with serialized barcode. During goods receiving, a unique barcode is generated for each serialised product. You will also need to make changes to ensure the received goods is reserved to the correct sales order. 4) Packing as usual. Jim S wrote > Adrian, Pierre, thanks for your feedback. > > Pierre I may not have been through in my analysis but I would like to > mention few points. The shipment logistics provider basically comes under > the distribution logistics which involves > 1. Receiving the packages from client. > 2. Storing the packages in the warehouse at a certain location, we call it > a distribution centre. This is need for picking later. > 3. Picking the packages and deliver to the customer. > > The shipment or packages from the client is an incoming shipment to the > logistics so I think best way would be to associate the incoming shipment > to a purchase order in ofbiz. Receiving the shipment will create necessary > information in the ofbiz. There is an interesting shipment type available > in ofbiz i.e. transfer I think it can be used since the shipment is really > transferred from the client to the logistics and from logistics to the > customer? > > The next step is to pick the packages, lade vehicle & provide a detail of > the packages (address information, packages information) on a sheet to the > driver. We can utilize the pick sheet to create the picking and delivery > information. I think we may need to rewrite code for certain part of the > order picking in ofbiz to model it for logistics. Once the packages are > delivered, the shipment status can be updated in ofbiz. > > > -- > Thanks, > Jim -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/ofbiz-for-logistics-tp4651203p4651295.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
