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Hi Guewen,

Am Freitag, den 07.07.2017, 13:53 +0000 schrieb Guewen Baconnier:
> Hello,
> 
> We have used or considered several ways depending on our customers
> needs:

this means even among your projects or the projects you got to know, no
"golden" standard or let's name it de-facto standar (that fits 80% of
the cases) has established ?

> 
> * split the bundle and keep only the lines in the sales order (this
> customer only used bundles as "packs" of independent products and
> didn't care about the pack itself)

This solution would render statistical (not to say cost) analysis on
bundle level almost impossible (at least if you strip this relation
before actually importing it to Odoo). How do you handle pricing and
invoice in that case? What strategy do you apply if one of the articles
is not in stock (even tough it was planned to be there).  

> * keep the bundle "main article" in the sales order split the lines
> in
> the picking (this customer needed margins at the line level for the
> whole pack, but didn't want to go through a whole manufacturing
> process)

that is actually the solution we took in a large project on version 7
as well, for the same reason! So maybe we could name this a de-facto
standard. So pricing is made on the bundle level ? What is your
strategy with variability (in our case the customer can further
detailed his selection within a dynamic bundle), what strategy do you
apply if one (few) out of many bundle articles i not on stock ?

> * create a BoM for manufacturing (not sure we had this one)
> 
> I think the 3 options are valid and needed for different situations.
> They could be implement in different addons (since 10.0, the
> inheritance will be much better with
> https://github.com/OCA/connector/pull/231)

ok, this helps a lot. Did you folks at camp2camp base your work on a
prior solution of us / Akretion or any other preexisting code and did
you share your solution for alternative 2 as well ? I not would you ?
And if not would you still be interested in a kind of golden OCA
standard implementing alternative 2 ?

Thanks and greetz and a nice weekend

Frederik

> 
> 
> --
> Guewen Baconnier
> Business Solutions Software Developer
> 
> Camptocamp SA
> PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne
> Phone: +41 21 619 10 39
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> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Frederik Kramer
> <frederik.kramer@initos.com> wrote:
> > Dear community,
> >
> > i'd like to catch up on an issue that was earlier asked from my
> > colleague Katja to Sebastien (from partner Akretion) but is valid
> and
> > to be discussed by an even larger audience.
> >
> > almost three years ago Akretion extended the Magento Connector for
> Odoo
> > to handle Magento's bundle products.[see 1] At the same time driven
> by
> > a customer we at initOS came up with another solution.[see 2]
> >
> > Unforatunately none of both solutions made it to the OCA.
> >
> > A customer of ours (that didn't use bundles so far) now requested
> to
> > enable Magento's bundle products in Odoo (v8.0), which is raising
> the
> > issue for us again. It would be hence great to join experiences and
> > develop a solution that works and inherits from previous attempts
> and
> > will finally be merged into OCA
> >
> > We foresee the following option:
> >
> > 1) Migrate and restructure our solution. Since the solution by
> Akretion
> > has the better architecture this may mean to somehow refactor into
> > something that is more the Akretion solution than ours.
> >
> > 2) Adopt an entirely different angle and extend the connector to
> import
> > bundle products as Phantom/Set BoM in Odoo. Since in our current
> case
> > there will be no variety when selecting a bundle product, we think
> > Odoo's default BoM would be flexible enough.
> >
> > After our first extended analysis both options seem to have similar
> > scores in term of effort, complexity and risk (in our concrete
> > context). However, both alternatives are very different since 1) is
> > handling basically a "trade" and upselling / crosselling problem
> > whereas 2) is definitely linked down to manufacturing (even tough
> > phantom BOMs are frequently used in non-MRP settings to be downward
> > integreatable to full fletched SRM solutions for instance [3]).
> More
> > over Phantom BoMs are not inventory articles which are assembled on
> the
> > fly but not "made to stock".
> >
> > This is why we'd like to discuss the issue with a broader audience
> of
> > partners and integrators in order to keep the overall engineering
> cost
> > small and add value to as much as possible use cases.
> >
> > So the question is: Have anyone of you had other Odoo cases with
> > Magento's bundle products? What solution did you take [see 1 and 2]
> or
> > please provide a link to code that you have or would recommend to
> > consider to solve that issue ?
> >
> > Was the BoM solution described above ever an alternative for you?
> (Why
> > / Why not?) With respect to your experience would you use the same
> > approach again?
> >
> > Not at least as part of the community we consider an exchange of
> our
> > experience as useful. Since there is no solution in the OCA yet, it
> > would be great to design the best approach not only for us, but for
> > most use cases in the whole community.
> >
> > We are looking forward to receive comments, suggestions and
> feedback
> > from developers as well as folks that have a similar / same
> business
> > problem.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Frederik
> >
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/OCA/connector-magento/pull/95/
> > [2] https://github.com/OCA/connector-magento/pull/117/
> > [3] http://www.sikichtech.com/insights/phantom-boms-in-microsoft-dy
> nami
> > cs-ax-their-role-in-mrp-and-costing/
> > [4] https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/731976
> >
> >
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> >
> > initOS GmbH
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> >
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> >
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