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Product substitutes. How?
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Urs Probst
Hi
In the electronics industry, many products such as resistors of a
specific value, size etc. can be bought from different manufacturers. To
make things more complicated, you have to buy these products from a
distributor (reseller), most manufacturers don't sell directly to SME
(Small Medium Enterprises).
In Odoo (V8 or V9) I create a product for all these resistors of a
specific value, size etc.
Now I would like to create "substitute products", n possibilities for
the one product defined above.
How could I achieve this in Odoo?
The vendors list in the odoo-product is not the right place, I think:
Because there are multiple resellers selling each multiples
manufacturers' parts. This would result in n times m long list and there
is no way to extract the right reseller with the chosen manufacturer.
To give an example:
Product created in Odoo:
Product Name: "Res_ThickFilm_1k0_1%_0603"
This is the product in the final BOM for assembling an electronics
board (PCB).
This part is manufactured by "Yageo", "ASJ", "Bourns" (and others) each
of which have their own part-numbers.
Distributors such as "Digi-Key", "Rutronik", "Mouser", "Arrow" etc. sell
one or more of above manufacturer's products.
During procurement, each reseller (a.k.a. distributor) is contacted to
give their prices for each vendor (and availability). Then, one reseller
and one manufacturer is selected and finally ordered.
Thanks and best regards,
-Urs
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Re: Product substitutes. How?
byElico Solutions Pte Ltd, dominique kon sun tack- 07/02/2016 11:16:29 - 0
