Units of Measure From Supplier to Customer

260 Tip: States OpenERP distinguishes between the states Confirmed and Assigned. An item is Confirmed when it is needed, but the available stock may be insufficient. An item is Assigned when it is available in stock and the storesperson reserves it: the necessary products have been reserved for this specific operation. You can also confirm a customer delivery using the Confirm Order button in the Sales Order. When you click the Process button of Outgoing Deliveries, a window opens where you can enter the quantities actually delivered. If you enter a value less than the forecasted one, OpenERP automatically generates a partial delivery note and a new order for the remaining items. For this exercise, just confirm all the products. If you return to the list of current orders you will see that your order has now been marked as delivered done. A progress indicator from 0 to 100 is shown by each order so that the salesperson can follow the progress of his orders at a glance. Figure 20.12: List of Orders with their Delivery State Note: Negative Stock Stock Management is very flexible so that it can be more effective. For example if you forget to enter products at goods in, this will not prevent you from sending them to customers. In OpenERP you can force all operations manually using the button Force Assignment. In this case, your stocks risk becoming negative. You should monitor all stocks for negative levels and carry out an inventory correction when that happens.

20.3.6 Customer Delivery by Product

From this version on, you can also handle deliveries by product, even from List view. Go to Warehouse → Products Moves → Deliver Products. Filters allow you to easily select deliveries to be done, available deliveries and so on. One way to quickly deliver products is to Group by Customer and select either To Do or Available. This is very useful functionality when you send the goods to your customer for several sales orders at a time. You can now just deliver the products, regardless of the sales order they come from. The List view offers great flexibility and allows you to rapidly deliver products by keeping full functionality Of course, you can handle both partial and complete deliveries and you can add information about the production lots and packs. Of course, you can also accomplish this from Form view.