Supplier order system?

[chris2407]

Hello,

 

im really missing a supplier order system in PS 1.4 is this implemented in 1.5 ?

 

Im thinking about following solution:

 

- Give me ability to set a "minimum available quantity for each product and combination".

- If quantity will be lower than the defined minimum i must be able to create a order list for example Excel and this shows all products from this supplier and how many products i have to order.

- ability to choose for which supplier i need to make a order list.

 

I really would love this function.

 

hope it can be included in presta 1.5

 

many thanks

[Leadz]

Hi,

 

I suggest you look into PS 1.5 as we implemented an advanced stock management system, including a supply order system.

Here's a link to a related topic : http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/1568[spam-filter]understanding-advanced-stock-management/

 

Kind regards,

[chris2407]

thanks. I did already read that thread but it does not answer my question... i dont need the advanced stock managment all i need is a ability that allows me to create order lists for my suppliers so i can just create order lists and forward them to my supplier?

[absolutic]

Supplier orders are the part of advanced stock management. If you activate it through Preferences - Products you will be able to explore creation of supplier orders in Stock - Supplier Orders.

I would say right now that implemented supplier order system responses to your expectations presented in the first post partially (but I think it can be adapted with override technique as you want).

[chris2407]

Ok thank you i will check this function soon. Thats exactly what was missing in PS. Of course i can adopt it with some little modifications for my needs

 

many thanks

[Leadz]

Hi,

 

Not only did we add supply orders, we also added supply order templates, so you can pre-define you orders and generate actual orders from them.

Also, there's an option that allows you to automatically load, for a given warehouse / supplier, every product which quantity is below a defined threshold (i.e. literally "Load every product which supplier is "Apple", in the warehouse "France - Paris", which quantity is below "100").

 

 

Note that the main functions you need to use to manipulate your stock are inherited from an interface (StockManagerInterface). You can override whatever you want. ; )

 

Kind regards,

[E-raser]

Hi Brice,

 

The new stock/supplier system is fantastic.

The only thing that is missing so far is a minimum stock level for each product/product combination. (PSFV-563)

 

br,

E-raser

[chris2407]

hmm Brice confirmed that this should be working fine... !?!

 

Also, there's an option that allows you to automatically load, for a given warehouse / supplier, every product which quantity is below a defined threshold (i.e. literally "Load every product which supplier is "Apple", in the warehouse "France - Paris", which quantity is below "100").

[chris2407]

if that function is not given then i totally agree to you this is a must have for the supplier order system. I did just vote to your bug report.

 

thanks

[E-raser]

So far I found this option to specify a minimum stock by product

When you add a supply order for supplier X, Prestashop will generate an supply order based on a value "all products from supplier X with a stock level lower then x"

So when you put for ex. 1 you should have all the products of supplier X , but not the quantities that you want to order.

 

Also there is no stock location on the supply order form, this is nice for the people in the warehouse to know where to put the received order.

The stock location is also missing on the delivery slip, this is a problem for the order pickers (PSFV-603)

 

Br,

E-raser

[chris2407]

I totally agree to you. I would like to specify for each product a "minimum quantity" so i could for example save "5" as a minimum quantity of product X and when i create a supplier order it will check if the stock is below minimum quantity.

 

So if the stock in this sample is 2 the supply order system should create a order with 3 pieces for this item so it will be 5 in stock again

 

that is exactly how it should work like that would be an amazing function... also you are right about Location and maybe also weight this should be included in the supply order list as well.

 

Hope presta team will check this thread and can adjust the supply order system a little then it will be absolutely amazing.

[Leadz]

So far I found this option to specify a minimum stock by product When you add a supply order for supplier X, Prestashop will generate an supply order based on a value "all products from supplier X with a stock level lower then x" So when you put for ex. 1 you should have all the products of supplier X , but not the quantities that you want to order. Also there is no stock location on the supply order form, this is nice for the people in the warehouse to know where to put the received order. The stock location is also missing on the delivery slip, this is a problem for the order pickers (PSFV-603) Br, E-raser

 

Hi,

 

1) Minimum quantity

 

This option is to be found when creating a supply order.

You have an input text box called "Automaticaly load products" that I should rename "Minimum quantity".

 

Let's say you have :

- Supplier "Apple"

- Warehouse "my warehouse"

- iPod Nano blue 8go, quantity 8

- iPod Nano blue 16go, quantity 16

- iPod Nano blue 32go, quantity 32

- Minimum quantity : 40

 

This will load these 3 products, with, respectively, quantity 32, 24, 8, so that the minimum is 40.

 

Of course, we could think of something different. What we had in mind was to add a "minimum quantity" field in the "Supplier" tab (below "Quantities"). This way, we could load the exact amount of products you need (per combination, of course).

 

Considering we are currently working on the making the RC as stable as possible, I did not plan on doing that yet.

 

2) Stock location

In the supply order form, you have the address of the warehouse.

What you can do, in the "Warehouses" tab (below "Suppliers"), is to define the exact location of the product (or combination) in a given warehouse. Of course you can do that per combination, per warehouse.

 

Did you have something else in mind?

 

Kind regards,

[E-raser]

Hi Brice,

 

1) what if: the ipod 8 gb, sells not so good as the ipod 32gb, lets say we need a mimum stock of the ipod 8gb of 20 and the ipod 32gb of 30

When I specify in the supply order for apple mimum quantity of 40, the supply order system wil order ipod 8 gb -> 20 and ipod 32 gb -> 10

It looks like the supply order system is thinking every product of sells the same. That is why a mim. stock level for each product/combination is needed.

 

2) ok, i can specify the location of each product at the tab warehouses

but you can't do anything with it

let say we receive an order of Apple with 50 different products, if the stock location is on the supply order form the staff in the warehouse can easily find the location where he has to put the product in the warehouse.

This is the same with the delivery (picking) slip, if you have an order of ex. 20 products the order pickers now have to search for each product because there is no stock location on the slip. This would be much easier if the stock location is on the delivery slip. If also the weight for each product & the total weught is on the delivery slip, the order picker can easly create a shipping label with the carrier.

 

Br,

E-raser

[Leadz]

Hi Brice,

 

1) what if: the ipod 8 gb, sells not so good as the ipod 32gb, lets say we need a mimum stock of the ipod 8gb of 20 and the ipod 32gb of 30

When I specify in the supply order for apple mimum quantity of 40, the supply order system wil order ipod 8 gb -> 20 and ipod 32 gb -> 10

It looks like the supply order system is thinking every product of sells the same. That is why a mim. stock level for each product is needed.

 

2) ok, i can specify the location of each product at the tab warehouses

but you can't do anything with it

let say we receive an order of Apple with 50 different products, if the stock location is on the supply order form the staff in the warehouse can easily find the location where he has to put the product in the warehouse.

This is the same with the delivery (picking) slip, if you have an order of ex. 20 products the order pickers now have to search for each product because there is no stock location on the slip. This would be much easier if the stock location is on the delivery slip.

 

Br,

E-raser

 

Hi,

 

 

1) Sure, I completely agree with you. I'll see what I can do.

 

2) Alright, I see why this is needed. Thanks.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Brice

[Leadz]

Hi,

 

I "pinned" this topic so that everyone can benefit from this thread.

 

Kind regards,

[E-raser]

thanks Brice, this will be a great option for larger ecommerce businesses

[chris2407]

I totally agree to what E-raser said and i would love to have these 2 options. they are a must have for the supply order system. I would highly appreciate if you will add this in Presta 1.5

[E-raser]

Hi, just a small thing, when you add a minimum stock for each products/combination. It also has to be possible to specify the minimum stock by warehouse.

Ex you have 2 shops with different warehouse, when warehouse A/shop A is selling more then warehouse B/shop B the minumum stock will be different in these 2 warehouses for a product/combination.

 

Br,

E-raser

[Nick Fedchik]

Hello Brice.

Supply order system is a cool feature, thanks for this.

 

In some cases merchants need to complete supply order by various conditions. For example, some products supplied only in packs of 16-24 items, even if only 6 required for now, also the aggregation of some products to one supply order required, plus an ability to add new (but just created) products (still 0 in stock) or any in-stock products into preparing supply order are also required.

 

IMHO now supply ordering procedure too hard for most merchants.

[Nick Fedchik]

Can anybody explain how to do an order of some products from catalog to one or another supplier with destination to one of my warehouses? It does not matter the remainder of products in stock.

[Luna]

Is there any chance that the supplier order system will be able to generate an advised order for a supplier? That should be based on a minimum stock, preferred stock and backorders. That would be great help because some products from foreign suppliers have to travel long and some products sell better. An order advise helps the merchant to keep his stock up to date.

[reygamba]

Hi There,

 

I've been busy migrating to prestashop 1.5 with the multistore functionality and advanced stock management.

But.... am i missing something, or is the software missing something.

 

What is the case?

 

- I´ve created an supply order with over 20 products on it. (linked to a warehouse/supplier)

- Then set the status to "Order received completly"

 

Now i was hoping that all the stock values for the products on the order would have been updated or at least that there would be an option to proces the supply order into the stock/warehouse, but nothing happens here.

 

Has someone any idea how to go from here ??

As i don`t like to have to update every single productstock manualy.

 

Greetz

Rey

[emericd]

Hi,

 

You have to click on the truck icon, then on the next page select all products (if all products are in the delivery, of course), and eventually click on the update button.

When you do this, your order will be indicated as partially received.

Then you can update to completly received manually.

That's how I use it, I think it was thought to be used like that

 

regards

Emeric

[jaro61]

- I´ve created an supply order with over 20 products on it. (linked to a warehouse/supplier)

- Then set the status to "Order received completly"

 

Now i was hoping that all the stock values for the products on the order would have been updated or at least that there would be an option to proces the supply order into the stock/warehouse, but nothing happens here.

 

If on product page in BO in "Quantity" change the setting from "I want to use the advanced stock management" to "I want to specify available quantities manually" and immediately back on "I want to use the advanced stock management", amount will be updated.

 

This is probably a bug, but not yet fixed.

[Silvie]

Hi all, I was also trying to get the supply orders to work, however I had a few issues. If you could confirm you have the same problem or if it is just an issue with my installation or with my understanding how the new system works , it would be great. My PS version is 1.5.3, upgraded from 1.3.6.

 

1) If a new supply order is received completely, I can see (in most cases) the new quantity of goods in the shop, but when I go to stock management, I can't see the product quantities that were added, I only see the manual changes.

 

2) There were no supply order statuses when I upgraded my store. I had to create them manually and now, although I tried to set it up as described in the documentation, it seems to work a little bit strange.. Did someone try to update the supply order statuses?

 

3) A supply order is created and received, then I go to a just received product and update the friendly URL field or any combination on the product, the quantity disappears. Nothing helps, not even changing to the manual quantity setup, saving, then changing it back to automatic quantity setup.. Anyone saw this happening, too?

 

Thanks a lot

Silvie

[Porpoise]

Looks to me like this order system is completely b$%$^ked. I've tried several times now to enter new stock via the stock ordering system and it seems to be completely arbitrary whether on not items actually get added to stock!?! It makes it completely unusable - the only way to add stock seems to be manually via the stock management console - which is fine if you're only dealing with a few products but when you're trying to enter big stock orders of dozens of items, it's a ridiculously slow method!!!

 

NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!

[Porpoise]

If on product page in BO in "Quantity" change the setting from "I want to use the advanced stock management" to "I want to specify available quantities manually" and immediately back on "I want to use the advanced stock management", amount will be updated. This is probably a bug, but not yet fixed.

 

Ha! Great! Tried this and now I've got multiples of the stock order! So it HAD updated the quantities in the DB but the system just wasn't picking up this data!?! WTF! This is completely F$%^KED! You can't use a system where you have to go back to every product and reset the setting to advanced stock management every time you receive a stock order!!!!! This is CRAZY!

[Porpoise]

Ha! Great! Tried this and now I've got multiples of the stock order! So it HAD updated the quantities in the DB but the system just wasn't picking up this data!?! WTF! This is completely F$%^KED! You can't use a system where you have to go back to every product and reset the setting to advanced stock management every time you receive a stock order!!!!! This is CRAZY!

 

OK. Thought I'd be clever and do an SQL UPDATE to change the value of 'advanced_stock_management' to '1' for all products but the application doesn't seem to be interested in that because none of the products have reset to reflect that status?!? Does anyone have any idea what's actually up with this module???

[Porpoise]

OK. Finally got this sussed. You have to go through ALL the individual steps of the supply process - you can't just jump from order creation to order complete! (For entering stock from scratch).

[Krishkv]

I hope this link will be helpful for you: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/prestashop-15/working-with-orders/create-order

[Porpoise]

I hope this link will be helpful for you: http://www.inmotionh...rs/create-order

 

Hi,

Thanks for the link but that's about creating a CUSTOMER order - not a SUPPLIER order.

[Christiaan_01]

In the supplier order you have to set the expected date of delivery.

Is the following functionality possible in PS or a module?

 

Product is out of stock. Product has been ordered through supplier order. Expected date of delivery has been set.

Could that product be automatically set to 'allow backorder' with the 'expected date of delivery' also shown on the product page in FO?

[bloggus]

Any more news of implementation of minimum stock of product, for every product individually?

[Roger_bps]

Hello Brice.

Supply order system is a cool feature, thanks for this.

 

In some cases merchants need to complete supply order by various conditions. For example, some products supplied only in packs of 16-24 items, even if only 6 required for now, also the aggregation of some products to one supply order required, plus an ability to add new (but just created) products (still 0 in stock) or any in-stock products into preparing supply order are also required.

 

IMHO now supply ordering procedure too hard for most merchants.

 

Any news on the ability to specify pack products on supply orders?

 

Maybe a simple feature just to utilize the same packaging function that already exists for selling products?

By accepting pack products in the supply order process, we may use the same pack feature, but just set the "supply" pack product to invisible for customers, hence only used for supply purposes?