On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Albert Cervera i Areny <alb...@nan-tic.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > We received the request for porting an OpenERP module we created to Tryton > which is called "nan_product_pack". The first thing we'd like to do is to > rename it to "product_kit" and will help users manage kits or sets of > products. > > > The idea is adding a new tab in the product (see product-kit.png) to > indicate what products the kit contains and what quantity. Then, when the > user will create a sale order or a picking, and the product is selected, all > the products of the kit are added to the order/picking prepending their > description with "> " (see sale-kit.png). That is executed recursively so > one can create kits that contain other kits. > > > The reason for doing it this way instead of using a bill of materials is > that it requires much less information than a full BoM and it's also easier > for users. It is also a very flexible solution for many situations. Although > the most usual is that the company has a kit which is not produced first but > collected at picking time, we have used it for other circumstances too such > as a kind of synonym of a product: The customer is purchasing a product and > we internally make the picking of another one but we never print the > subcomponents in the sale order or picking reports. > > > At the same time it's possible to decide how product price and stock are > calculated. The price of the kit can be set in the kit product or calculated > as the sum of its components. The stock can be calculated as if it was a > normal product or using the stock available of the component with less > quantity. > > > We're going to work on that in the next few days so if you have any concerns > or needs that we could take into account when working on that they will be > very welcomed. > Very nice, this is very useful with spare parts sales, where you have seal kits, composed of other single seals, and other machine components.
Go ahead. Rgds Saxa -- tryton-dev@googlegroups.com mailing list
