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[David Mitchell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Regarding Drop shipping I think there are two scenarios that need to be
addressed:

1) When a company (e.g. Company A) has the role of seller to the end
customer. They are purchasing a good from their supplier/vendor (Supplier
A) and Company A wants Supplier A to drop-ship the item to Company A's
end-customer. The burden being on Supplier A to drop ship the goods. <--
this is the scenario I believe Rvalyi was originally describing.

An alternative drop ship scenario exists which we've seen is as follows:

2) When company (e.g. Company A) takes on the role of supplier. A retailer
(Retailer B) has placed a sales order - and they want Company A (OpenERP
user) to drop ship the order to Retailer B's customer. The challenge is
that Company A - the user of OpenERP - doesn't want to hold all of the
Retailer B's drop ship customers in the address file as well. We have this
situation in which Retailer B has 3000-4000 drop ship addresses.

Other systems we've seen in this scenario actually write the entire drop
ship address into the Sales Order Table - versus just a reference to the
res.partner.address id. Thus keeping the "Drop Ship" address completely
independent from residing in the Address Table. Those other system actually
just "copy" the current addresses on file from the Partner record for
Invoicing Address and Shipping Address - and then allow them to be
overwritten. This also prevents the issue of overwriting historical
addresses with an address change inadvertently with an address edit -
versus entering a new address entirely to protect history.

I just wanted to mention Use Case #2 as it is related to drop shipping as
well. Has anyone addressed #2 in this group??

Thanks,

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:29 AM, David Rinnan <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think option B is good.
> My documentation to the supplier is the purchase order which includes
> shipping info. When they have confirmed I can "receive" the product.
>
> The good thing with option A, as I see it, is that invoice control could
> be implemented in a more flexible matter and more inline as how OpenERP
> works already.
>
> But if we assume manual invoice control or prepaid invoice settings then
> option B would be the cleanest implementation I think
>
>
>
>
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> 6 okt 2011 kl. 14.39 skrev Raphael Valyi:
>
> Hello,
>
> I will soon work on refactoring of the purchase_to_sale
> and sale_supplier_direct_delivery modules together to make a better support
> for drop shipping in OpenERP.
>
> However, I have a doubt: what do you think is better:
>
> A) drop shipping products pickings are generated upon the sale order but
> they have the supplier location as the origin.
> The corresponding purchase order line doesn't generate any reception.
>
> B) drop shipping products don't generate pickings upon the sale order. But
> when they are bought, the reception goes to the customer instead.
> Eventually there could be an invoice upon this delivery if he product
> hasn't been invoiced upon the sale order already.
>
>
> I tend to prefer B because I would say it's easier to relate the shipping
> and the purchase properly, specially if you change the supplier or the
> expedition date.
> and this is what I recently did in the purchase_to_sale module. Do you
> think A is better?
>
>
> BTW, I submitted a merge proposal of the order picking shipment generation
> in 6.1 and will soon push the equivalent for purchase, this is he kind of
> thing that will make it cleaner to properly relate the sale order line and
> purchase order line and tweak the shipping in those specific MTO cases.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
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