[ic] Inventory Functionality

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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:50:45AM -0400, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Bruce Nordstrand (brucen@ksl.com.au):
...> > 
> > Additional to these are there any addons to handle Bill of Materials when
> > defining an item. For example a shop may sell individual items as well as
> > complete units made up from the individual parts. BOM would assist in sales
> > reporting and ordering.
> 
> There is an incomplete implementation of this which ended up losing the
> customer for whom it was being developed.
> 
> While it works fine, it is a bear to configure and maintain because the
> UI support was never completed and it was never properly documented. It
> was actually designed to interface with downloaded BOM tables from Baan
> or the like.
> 
> It probably would take someone funding one of the IC consultants capable
> of completing the job to get it really going well, with UI support.

Making it "really going well, with UI support" is
way harder than the BOM work itself.   Consider 
handling this outside of ic itself, perhaps using ic
to maintain the "assemblies".  It's straightforward
unless you have made your life hard with attributes.  :-)


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