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Re: Purchasing "packaging-like" products

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Data Dance s.r.o., Radovan Skolnik
- 02/03/2024 16:47:13 
Actually, no need to fiddle with price as the product.supplierinfo holds price 
for purchase UoM. Even better.

Best regards

	Radovan

On sobota 2. marca 2024 16:41:16 CET Radovan Skolnik wrote:

> Hi Tom,

> 

> 

> thank you for tip. That's probably the way to go even it requires some

> tweaking of the product name / purchase description / price. What I mean is

> if we have the original product like "Flora Margarine 8x1kg" for 40EUR and

> we create UoM of 8-pack, the product internally should have name of "Flora

> Margarine 1kg", purchase description of "Flora Margarine 8x1kg" and cost of

> 5EUR. However that is doable even with hundreds of products - regular

> expressions in Libre Office can do magic to help.

> 

> Few things then remain when purchasing like:

> 1) On purchase order use only purchase description so it seems like the

> original product. There used to be purchase_order_line_description, but

> latest version is stuck at 12.0 Will port to 17.0 2) Only allow the

> purchase_uom_id of that 8-pack to be selected on purchase order as no other

> UoM is really available. Something like Aymerick suggested but not aware of

> something dealing with this 3) Maybe hiding the name of the UoM from

> purchase order as it would confuse the supplier

> 

> Best regards

> 

> 	Radovan

> 

> On piatok 1. marca 2024 22:12:14 CET Tom Blauwendraat wrote:

> > Hi Radovan

> > I had to deal with a similar situation for a supermarket, where

> > an external database had to be imported as products in the system.

> > It had a lot of similar examples like "package of 6 eggs" or

> > "crate of 20 bottles" whereby the purchase and sales units are

> > different.

> > 

> > I ended up creating separate "uom" records for each, which

> > correspond to a certain number of another "uom". So a "12 pack" is

> > 12 times a "unit". You can then decide to purchase in a different

> > unit and sell in another unit. Odoo also has some documentation on

> > it:

> > https://www.odoo.com/documentation/17.0/nl/applications/inventory_and_mrp/

> > in ventory/product_management/product_replenishment/uom.html [1] Maybe

> > this could help

> > 

> > -Tom

> > 

> > 

> > 

> > 

> > 

> > On 3/1/24 20:36, Radovan Skolnik wrote:

> > 

> > 

> > Hello,

> > I am dealing with a situation where the customer purchases many products

> > that are like this: "Flora Margarine 8x1kg" It is not packaging, because

> > it

> > is not possible to buy just 1kg. This is quite confusing for the customer

> > and I am trying to make it easier for them to manage. One of the problems

> > is that they perceive that the UoM here should be kg (because they just

> > see

> > it there in the name). This can be handled by product_secondary_unit and

> > stock_secondary_unit to get the amount in kgs. What I think could help is

> > this: when ordering 1 unit of that product somehow turn in into 8 units of

> > virtual "Flora Margarine 1kg" I am trying to wrap my head around this with

> > no success. I have considered these modules but none seem to be doing what

> > I would like to: * product_supplierinfo_qty_multiplier

> > * purchase_only_by_packaging

> > * product_pack

> > Any ideas on how to approach this? Thank you very much.

> > Best regards

> > Radovan Skolnik

> > 

> > 

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