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["Kyle Waid - http://www.gcotech.com" <1020875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Numerigraphe,

I share your point of view. To me, the way OpenERP handles stock
technically and visually, does not make sense. I wish to have the exact
configuration you are describing. In all businesses I have seen they
manage stock by location just as you have described. They never have a
generic stock location. That doesn't make sense. We do not want to allow
any stock movement to take place at the highest level, such as the
warehouse stock location. We want it to be a view only. As you stated
OpenERP does not support this configuration. There are multiple issues
aside from what you have described. For instance. The location stock is
a compendium of all child locations, but it also allows stock to be
stored directly in this location. This means that it is difficult to
keep proper management of stock. We NEVER want stock moves to take place
in the view.

To demonstrate an example of this problem, Have quantity 5 in location
stock. Have quantity 5 in a child location of stock. When you view the
stock detail it will show 10 in location stock, even though there is
actually 5 in this location. If I go to a periodical inventory and
select location stock, it again will show me the total amount in this
location and all child locations with the onchange event, even though
the quantity in this location is less.This means it is impossible to
determine the actual stock value in location stock.  In my opinion this
is an architectural design flaw. OpenERP is great software, but I
believe it significantly lacks in basic quality stock management for an
ERP software.

The other issues that I was mentioning are managing stock by location.
OpenERP has almost no mechanism to see this visually or manage it
properly. For instance, if I have 5k stock locations and I select from
the product form "Stock by Location" It will show me (when it finally
loads) ALL stock locations even if the quantity =0. These features we
are talking about are core standard features that need to be addressed.

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Title:
  Warehouses could use view locations as stock location

Status in OpenERP Addons (modules):
  Opinion

Bug description:
  In the warehouse object, View locations can not be chosen as the stock location.
  In Bug #882481 we changed the warehouse object to only accept internal locations, so as to also exclude other strange configurations (like using an inventory/production/customer/supplier location as a stock location).

  But I think there is a case for allowing the stock location to be a view.
  It should not be a problem for generated stock moves because the scheduler will automatically change the source location to an internal location where the product is available.

  So the stock location should allow both internal and view locations.

  Lionel Sausin.

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