Hello,

I've been struggling with this for some time and after many hours of trial and error and trying every conceivable search online, I admit failure.  Hopefully someone here might have some ideas.

I'm using Odoo 16.0 CE.

We have company that buys bulk bags of second-hand items - clothes, shoes, etc.  When we receive the bag we usually know the category of items inside (adult clothing, children shoes, toys, cookware, etc) but sometimes it is a mix of multiple categories.  We store the bags in a warehouse and open them over time. We need to track the number of bags in our warehouse, which is easy in Odoo.  The problem comes when we pull a new bag and need to convert it from a "Bulk bag of adult clothing" into whatever inventory items we find inside, for example: 17 pants, 23 shirts, 8 skirts, and 20 pairs of socks, etc.

Initially I thought that the manufacturing module would make this easy - simply consume 1 bulk bag and produce 17 pants, 23 shirts, ...  Well, I've tried to make that work in many different ways, both as manufactured products and as kits, but nothing works.  I tried "unbuilding" bulk bags and this almost worked, however it ultimately failed because Odoo forcibly decomposes the item precisely according to the types and numbers of products specified in the BoM.  Obviously making a new BoM for every combination is a bad approach. 

Has anyone had any success doing anything similar?  If so, can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!