Connect your Odoo to a logistics center
External partners or sub contractors needs to share informations with you.
If you want your business fast grows up, it’s impossible to use anymore fax or email copy/paste.
You should connect in real time your information system to your partners.
Here is some modules to complete this use case: allow to exchange file datas between Odoo ERP and external warehouses
Quick Start
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Install bleckmann_logistics_customize module
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Got to Menu Connectors > Logistics > Backends
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Click to create a new backend
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Select ‘Bleckmann’ as Logistics Center field
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Select ‘Version’ and ‘Warehouse’ under ‘Logistics configuration’ and save
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Here is what you should see:
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Click on Bleckmann link to go to the repository to define ftp parameters
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To attach your products to your Logistics Center, go to Product Connector tab and add it.
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Optionnaly in this screen you may share products information with several partners: Sub contractors, external warehouses, etc.
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To send your product catalog (only products attached to this backend) to your logistics center, just click on Green right arrow near ‘Catalog’ like here.
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In the same way you can send files (triggered by a planified task) for other flows: incoming, delivery order.
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Your partner can reply, and then you import data to confirm delivery or receptions
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There is also a module to simulate the reply of the logistics center, very useful for developement and tests steps
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It’s required to care of send only the right informations to your partners. To ensure it, you need to manage checks and alerts on Sales. Just customize existing Exception Rules or create others like here.
These modules are only available on Odoo / OpenERP V7. It needs some work due the changes of the data model on stock between v7 and v8
Here is the repository
https://github.com/akretion/logistics-center
Required Code Dependencies
https://github.com/akretion/file-exchange
