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Re: Filling in product catalogue by vendors (external parties - i.e. portal users)

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milori2006
- 20/01/2024 11:18:54
Hi,

My 5c suggestion is, before going farer and further here, to look at the following existing functionalities, I must admit not exhausted list:


I hope (believe) that you can figure out your first-step working scenario which will satisfy your desire not to rely on "external hands" data management. 

However, because your initial more important business requirement looks like to be minimising or eliminating the internal workload of the procurement team, still a process that is implementing a "horizontal integration" across vendors must be architected (designed), which is also possible, but probably not with the existing (like above) functionalities. Eventually, that might be the second-step scenario which will meet your business functional requirements to decrease the internal workload of the procuring people. Another e-catalog-based approach is also feasible but that would require adapting the purchasing strategy and operations of the company' sourcing process.

Best regards,

Miroslav Lorinkov

( apmcservice@gmail.com )



On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 5:12 AM Radovan Skolnik <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
Hello,

I am working with a client that works in food supply industry - i.e. they purchase groceries and other food stuff and prepare food on large scale. An example would be hundreds/thousands portions of bolognese sauce made of beef, tomato sauce, ...

Now the company is just starting their operations and are collecting information about possible suppliers and products available. Their idea is something like sending out Rf? (P as proposal maybe) let's say for that tomato sauce where the vendors would provide information such as: description, origin, packaging, price, ...

My experience strongly suggests not allowing external parties to be allowed to create business records such as products in the system but this is the kind of scenario they describe as the desired outcome. I have used a 3rd party module which extends the RfQ functionality to fill in the prices by suppliers (so effectively changing one attribute in purchase.order.line). But in this case the scenario should lead to creation of new product.[template|product] and also product.supplierinfo by the suppliers.

AFAIK Odoo out-of-the-box does not have anything even close to this. Has anyone faced similar requirement? Any recommendations on how to tackle this one?

Any advice is greatly welcome.

Best regards

	Radovan Skolnik

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