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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:40:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: Vendor Management
From: Heidi Dehaes <info.olagos@gmail.com>
To: user <user@ofbiz.apache.org>
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I think a SUPPLIER with drop shipment is sent a purchase invoice before
products can be delivered immediately to the customer.

A VENDOR has products on the ecommerce store from within a separate
category dedicated to the vendor. At first instance these products can be
added by the ecommerce shop owner.  But it needs a separate inventory
management for that specific category and this inventory information being
made available for the vendor also.

Are these products then being paid by the customer to the the ecommerce
owner.

How is the VENDOR then paid? With a commission invoice? Perhaps commission
invoices need to be generated automatically.

Who will do the shipment? Where is the inventory ? At the VENDOR 's
premises? Then the shipment should be done by the VENDOR. Will the shipment
management from ofbiz then have a dedicated part for the vendor also?

Some ideas to think about.

Regards,
Eric


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2014-03-10 17:14 GMT+01:00 <Eric.LENS@ec.europa.eu>:

> Yes, and drop shipment party is defined in Ofbiz as a "SUPPLIER" if I am
> right .
>
> So what is  the real difference with a VENDOR then.
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Le Roux [mailto:jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 5:12 PM
> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Vendor Management
>
> To complete Pierre's explanation (I hope not to confuse things)
>
> I always thought that vendors as defined at
>
> https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditVendorProduct?pro=
ductId=3DGZ-1000
> and
>      https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/ap/control/findVendors
> are of the external category, like 3rd parties on Amazon. From
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1893 those are different from
> suppliers, so
> I can see only that.
>
> But I never used this functionality, nor know what is really implemented
> for that, apart handling parties (I think nothing else).
> So the data model is ready and some around (CRUD and find services mostly=
).
> But you have to do the rest (you may have a vendor per store if you have
> multi-stores or also multi-vendors per store)
>
> Note that there are also drop shipment examples available OOTB. I see the=
m
> related somehow...
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 10/03/2014 15:26, Pierre Smits a =E9crit :
> > Ioannis,
> >
> > First of all, ensure that you have your (business) definitions straight
> and
> > that the parties you communicate with understand and share your
> definitions.
> >
> > The noun Vendor can have (and probably will have) different meanings to
> > different persons depending on the domain the work in/come from.
> According
> > to investopedia it can be both a person or a business entity. And that
> (as
> > should be regarded as obvious) as wel an internal party as an external
> > entity.
> >
> > >From your descriptions I gathered that it is a person executing a
> business
> > process, but whether he is part of your organisation or not I could not
> > determine.
> >
> > If he is part of your organisation, he could be regarded as internal
> sales,
> > sales representative, sales back office clerk, or any other role you ha=
ve
> > defined in your organisation. If he is external, is he then a sales
> > representative working on commission basis or a reseller (who buys and
> > sells for own risk and profit).
> >
> > Determining (and communicating) such aspects up front enables your peer=
s
> to
> > comprehend the challenge/opportunity to the fullest and helps them to
> help
> > you in finding the answer and/or solution.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pierre Smits
> >
> > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> > Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> > Based Manufacturing, Professional
> > Services and Retail & Trade
> > http://www.orrtiz.com
> >
>

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