The purpose of this discussion is to describe and demonstrate how to perform drop shipping from both the perspective of the manufacturer (source of the material) and the distributor (one requesting the drop shipment to your customer).
2014-09-02 Drop Shipping Discussion and Demonstration
Introduction
Two perspectives of Drop Shipping
the manufacturer or source
the distribution company requesting the drop ship from the source to their customer
0:01:30 Discuss the Manufacturing perspective
0:02:30 Discuss the Distributor perspective
0:03:45 How to restore iDempiere back to its original state (when it was first installed). This action deletes all user created data.
0:04:30 Create your Drop Ship warehouse for the HQ organization
0:06:45 Update "HQ" Organization => Org Info tab and set the Dropship Organization field to our new Warehouse.
0:08:00 Demonstrate Scenario #1 (manufacturer fulfilling a drop ship request from my distributor)
Create new BP (Dropship Jane)
0:09:15 Create Dropship Jane and Joe Block Partner Relation record
0:10:15 Create Sales Order
0:11:00 Should you use the Drop Ship flag on the Sales Order?
0:12:30 Generate Shipment and zoom
0:13:30 Generate invoice and zoom
0:14:45 Demonstrate Scenario #2 (distributor asking a manufacturer to ship directly to the distributor's customer)
0:15:30 Create Sales Order
0:16:15 Create new Product for this scenario (tangent)
0:19:15 Generate PO from SO (Sales Order) with Drop Shipment = "Yes"
0:20:30 Complete PO
0:24:00 Create Material Receipt (to represent vendor's confirmation of delivery)
0:24:15 Note: MR => Create Lines From has bug where it leaves the Line's Locator = null
0:25:15 Complete MR and View Customer Shipment
0:27:15 Tracking non-confirmed Drop Ship Purchase Orders
Tangent to confirm isDelivered can be used to track non-delivered drop shipments - Chuck to submit bug for PO delivered = N when delivered.
0:33:00 When to set Sales Order isDropShip = Yes - can be good and bad.
work around: modify m_inout_candidate_v to remove dependency of isDropShip flag
0:37:30 Demonstrate Scenario #2 with non-stocked product - a product that is never stocked - only drop shipped.
0:40:15 Create non-stocked (Product Type = Service vs item)
0:41:15 Create new Sales Order (this time flag SO as Drop Ship = "Yes")
0:42:45 Create and Complete Material Receipt for non-stocked good
0:43:30 Review Material Receipt postings for non-stocked good - debits Product Expense instead of Product Asset
0:44:00 Tangent - accounting relationship between MR and Vendor Invoice when receiving Service (non-stocked) goods - Matched Invoice unwinds the second Product Expense posting.
Note: Drop Ship MR and Shipment execute almost simultaneously.
0:46:45 Create Customer Invoice
0:47:30 Discuss relationship between SO's QtyReserved in HQ Warehouse and PO's QtyOrdered (as viewed by Storage Detail)