[OFBiz] Users - Receiving inventory w/o PO

[Ian Gilbert]

How about setting up another warehouse (facility) and then doing an inventory transfer? 
Effectively the customer would be the warehouse and you could move stock that way?  I guess there
would be issues there as they would also be a supplier ...

Or possibly one of the 'rental' models?  Showing it as a service rather than as a product?

Sorry.  It's late here and I'm not sure if that's useful or not.  Will have a look in the morning
and see if anyone else has had any useful comments.

Best wishes

Ian


On Tue, April 4, 2006 01:17, Brad wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion Ian.  The problem however is that an incoming shipment will have an
> associated party who is sending the products in.  Simply using the inventory variance would not be
> sufficient because it would lose the party relationships.  The sending party will still not see
> that their incoming shipment has arrived, and what (if anything) was rejected.  Additionally the
> system would lose any trail of what happened to the items contained within the shipment (such as
> where they were stored, who processed the package, etc.)
>
> Consider the case where your company offers a grading / assay / authentication service for
> certain products.  A customer wants to use that service.  Somehow you must create an incoming
> shipment associated to that customer.  You cannot, however, use a PO because you (the receiver)
> aren't actually purchasing the item(s).  When the shipment is received, inventory needs to be
> updated to reflect that these items are located somewhere under your control (forget for a moment
> about complexity involving avoiding fulfilling someone else's order with this product that we
> didn't purchase).
>
> It is almost as if a new ORDER TYPE is necessary instead of SALES & PURCHASE ORDER such as a
> DEPOSIT ORDER or something that
> would represent an order for incoming products that you aren't purchasing and are not assets owned
> by your company.  Then the "Receive Inventory" tools would need to permit lookup of either a
> PURCHASE or DEPOSIT order.
>
>
> Does anyone see what I'm getting at?  Does this make sense?  Is there any out-of-the-box way to
> accommodate this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Brad
>
>
>> My mistake.  It's in the 'Inventory Items' section.  If you specify the item then you can
>> adjust it at the bottom in the 'Physical Inventory Variances' sectoin.
>
>
>>> On Mon, April 3, 2006 23:35, Brad wrote:
>>> / Hi folks,
>>>
> />>/
> />>/
> />>/ Suppose there is a need to record and track an incoming shipment that is
> />>/ not associated with a Purchase Order?  Perhaps an item that is a promotional gift from a
> supplier />>/ or an item from a customer who is not ordinarily a supplier?  Through the facility
> manager you can />>/ create an incoming shipment, however I cannot figure out how to actually
> receive it.  Under />>/ "Receive Inventory" it requires a PO#.  Is there an existing
> />>/ way to complete the incoming shipment and have inventory properly adjusted?  Creating a PO
> for the />>/ shipments where the price is FREE is not an option because it would throw off COGS as
> well as />>/ confuse some customers when they look at their order histories.  There is a way to
> manually post a />>/ specific product under "Receive Inventory", however it does not refer with
> the incoming shipment. />>/
> />>/ Any ideas?
> />//>/
> />>/ Brad/
>
>
>
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