[OFBiz] Users - Automatic Purchasing

[Christopher Farley]

Si Chen (sichen at opensourcestrategies.com) wrote:

> I agree.  The only problem is maybe if you add five requirements of 10 
> each, the purchase order entry system might not know that that's equal 
> to ordering 50 and meets the 50 breakpoint, but that should be fixed.

That's half of the reason I want to autoGenerate requirements, so
that I never have five requirements of 10 each... In my business,
I would probably end up with hundreds or even thousands of requirements
for 1 or 2 each, and the resulting purchase order would have hundreds
or thousands of line items, all for the same supplier product. This 
would be unacceptably inefficent for check-in, etc. Plus, my suppliers
would go berserk when they saw my 2000 page purchase orders coming
through on their fax machine!

I originally thought that the way to solve the problem is to have
ofbiz group products together when adding requirement items to a
purchase order.  For example, if you have five requirements of 10
each, and select them to be added to a PO, only one line item is
added to the PO, and the quantity is 50. Then, of course, you could
not link purchase order lines to a specific sales order line, which
is desirable for some businesses.

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com