inventory transfers and the TRANSFER shipment type

[Si Chen <si...@opensourcestrategies.com>]

Hi all.

We'd like to be able to manage large groups of inventory transfers as  
shipments.

I'm trying to get the TRANSFER shipment type to create inventory  
transfers automatically for all shipment items, but then I realized  
that no ItemIssuance is created for TRANSFER shipment items, so I  
couldn't create inventory transfers.  I also couldn't find a service  
that just took productId and facilityId and reserved or found the  
first in stock, un-reserved inventory item against it.  Should this  
be the way to do it--to implement a service like this, possibly by re- 
factoring some code from an order inventory reservation service.

Or, should we be trying to create a process where inventory transfers  
are created against items in the warehouse, then aggregated into  
Shipment, then when the shipment is completed, mark the inventory  
transfers as completed?  In which case, should we still be creating  
ItemIssuance against each InventoryTransfer entity, or would that  
cause double counting?

Thanks,

Si