Jason Flatt skrev:

On Thursday 02 November 2006 06:34, Khalid B wrote:

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Have you looked at the ERP module? I recall it having an inventory module. Perhaps some pooling of effort would be more appropriate?

Yes I have looked at the ERP module. As I see it, it does not integrate with the existing e-commerce module, but it's just my opinion.

The inventory management module does integrate with the e-commerce modul and extend it with additional features. The ERP module is a very good idea, but I don't see any reason for making a partly duplicate of the e-commerce module by making a new system to create invoices in. What the inventory management modul does and the ERP module does is two different things. I would like suggestions about what should be changed in the description to tell the differences and, what my module actually does. But if the ERP module would be more integrated with the e-commerce module, it will be more powerful. A pooling of effort might be a solution for both modules. -- Best Regards René

Simon Lindsay skrev:

Khalid B wrote:

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Have you looked at the ERP module? I recall it having an inventory module. Perhaps some pooling of effort would be more appropriate?

We do inventory tracking with purchase orders, goods receipt, serial number tracking, invoices etc.

Well, almost. Its about 90% built. Bugfixing and Testing needs to be done.

I've just done a huge number of changes to remove namespace/module name clashes with anything else (all modules are now erp_* and all functions should be erp_* or _erp* as well as adding some basic accounting sort of stuff to produce sales reports.

We don't yet integrate with ecommerce, but the changes just done are the first step in being able to do that.

I think an xmlrpc interface between the two, so that ecommerce can be on the live site, and erp at the back end might be the best way to go, with the option to have them on the same machine of course. Any other thoughts?

We're using part of the erp package to run our business already (job tracking), but i hope to be moving over to actually using the rest of the modules in the very near future, so I can ditch horrible, slow, quickbooks/myob.

There is still a way to go, and I have a lot more ideas on what is needed in addition to what is already being done, but its getting there.

Simon It's a very good idea. Maybe, we can put some of the functionality together, since the inventory management module, does handle items/goods/services in a more sales friendly way. The module is aiming to help the sales presentation and to help you with organize the products/inventory in groups based on item classes, item sub classes and manufactures .

The module also enables you to import prices, stock value, weight, ean numbers from csv/txt files. It also enables you to check if any supplier have got any new products in any given item class or from any given manufacturer. -- Best Regards René

Simon Lindsay skrev:

I've just used taxonomy for organisation/grouping, and these modules http://drupal.org/project/directory and particularly http://drupal.org/project/refine_by_taxo

Will work with that quite well. For example choosing CPU, then AMD, then Dual Core, and then only being presented with the 4 Dual core CPU's. Looks good, but how is it integrated with the e-commerce module? The inventory management modul is very much integrated into the e-commerce module and gives you a very powerful way of seeing stats about sales, since the the integration.

Its built and we use it to import daily from a .csv of 40k lines from multiple suppliers, thus keeping pricing up to date on a daily basis. The same with the inventory management module ;-)

But I see duplicats in the erp_item = e-commerce product module, correct me if I'm wrong? -- Best Regards René