Re: operating a single OFBiz with multiple companies.

[Hans Bakker <ma...@antwebsystems.com>]

This looks very promising Adrian,

could you elaborate or perhaps contribute to make this possible?

Regards,
Hans


On 05/23/2013 02:46 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
> The current data model provides for this, but it will require setting 
> up the data correctly and adding a bit of code.
>
> At 1Tech, we implement Organization Contexts. An Organization Context 
> is a combination of data and code that allows a user to "log into" an 
> internal organization and all data is filtered accordingly (the user 
> sees only the data for that internal organization).
>
> The basic idea is to relate various documents, parties, etc to the 
> internal organization, then check for that relationship while 
> searching/displaying data.
>
> -Adrian
>
> On 5/23/2013 8:33 AM, Hans Bakker wrote:
>> We are currently implementing OFBiz in a large organization (300M$ 
>> reveneu) )which intends to use all major components of OFBiz 
>> including accounting.
>>
>> This means that every company in the holding will do his own 
>> accounting and operation concerning orders, invoices and payments, so 
>> orders are sent between ofbiz internal organizations as well as 
>> shipments, invoices and payments.
>>
>> So, in other words, a purchase order for the originating organization 
>> is send to another internal organization which needs to be converted 
>> to a sales order for the receiving organization. The same for 
>> shipments, invoices and payments. These documents can also be sent 
>> via web services between completely separated OFBiz installations.
>>
>> Anybody having experiences with this and want to share?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hans
>

Re: operating a single OFBiz with multiple companies.

[Hans Bakker <ma...@antwebsystems.com>]

sure we can follow the suggestion of Adrian to setup a organizational 
context, and even, that separate companies could have different base 
currencies if we see the definition in the PartyAccountingPreference 
entity. Pretty sure that OFBiz does not allow that everywhere in the 
application. The rollup subledger in accounting does not do that yet and 
probably other places too when there are inter company transactions.

We need to setup that the defaultOrganizationParty is used as a 
condition everywhere on every list, like invoices, payments, orders 
shipments etc and the accounting sub ledger rollup will make currency 
conversions to the currency of the top company where required.

any other suggestions welcome....

Regards,
Hans


On 06/17/2013 04:37 PM, Grant wrote:
> Hans,
>
> In some respects this post is similar to mine
> (http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Multi-Organization-Setup-td4642013.html).
> Single OFBiz instance with multiple branches in various geographical
> regions. Sorry I don't have answers for you .... rather just some questions.
>
> In my case each branch/store will do there own accounting, orders, sales,
> invoices, inventory management (with some inter-branch transfer). I will
> need to be able to roll the accounting up for branches with in a region and
> then at a global level as well (same applies to inventory).
>
> I would be very interested to hear more about Adrian's Organisational
> Context, as that is currently one of my concerns. I don't want admin clerks
> at one branch been able to see and or adjust inventory at another branch.
>
> Adrian, could you possible elaborate a little on what data needs to be
> setup?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Grant
>
>
>
>
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Re: operating a single OFBiz with multiple companies.

[Grant <sy...@gmail.com>]

Hans, 

In some respects this post is similar to mine
(http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Multi-Organization-Setup-td4642013.html).
Single OFBiz instance with multiple branches in various geographical
regions. Sorry I don't have answers for you .... rather just some questions.

In my case each branch/store will do there own accounting, orders, sales,
invoices, inventory management (with some inter-branch transfer). I will
need to be able to roll the accounting up for branches with in a region and
then at a global level as well (same applies to inventory). 

I would be very interested to hear more about Adrian's Organisational
Context, as that is currently one of my concerns. I don't want admin clerks
at one branch been able to see and or adjust inventory at another branch.

Adrian, could you possible elaborate a little on what data needs to be
setup?

Kind regards

Grant




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Re: operating a single OFBiz with multiple companies.

[Adrian Crum <ad...@sandglass-software.com>]

NDAs prohibit me from sharing any more details. Sorry.

-Adrian

On 6/17/2013 9:51 AM, Hans Bakker wrote:
> This looks very promising Adrian,
>
> could you elaborate or perhaps contribute to make this possible?
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
>
> On 05/23/2013 02:46 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>> The current data model provides for this, but it will require setting 
>> up the data correctly and adding a bit of code.
>>
>> At 1Tech, we implement Organization Contexts. An Organization Context 
>> is a combination of data and code that allows a user to "log into" an 
>> internal organization and all data is filtered accordingly (the user 
>> sees only the data for that internal organization).
>>
>> The basic idea is to relate various documents, parties, etc to the 
>> internal organization, then check for that relationship while 
>> searching/displaying data.
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>> On 5/23/2013 8:33 AM, Hans Bakker wrote:
>>> We are currently implementing OFBiz in a large organization (300M$ 
>>> reveneu) )which intends to use all major components of OFBiz 
>>> including accounting.
>>>
>>> This means that every company in the holding will do his own 
>>> accounting and operation concerning orders, invoices and payments, 
>>> so orders are sent between ofbiz internal organizations as well as 
>>> shipments, invoices and payments.
>>>
>>> So, in other words, a purchase order for the originating 
>>> organization is send to another internal organization which needs to 
>>> be converted to a sales order for the receiving organization. The 
>>> same for shipments, invoices and payments. These documents can also 
>>> be sent via web services between completely separated OFBiz 
>>> installations.
>>>
>>> Anybody having experiences with this and want to share?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Hans
>>
>