Consignment Sales Management

Qualiantech developed an extension module named Consignment Sales Management for handling Consignment Sales process.

This module is registered in Openbravo forge and Qualian have a plan to release it in Openbravo Exchange,probably by next week.


http://forge.openbravo.com/projects/consignmentsales



Functional Specification Document
Contents

1 Functional Specification: Consignment Sales Management
1.1 Section 1: Overview & Justification
1.1.1 Purpose:
1.2 Section 2: Users & Business process description
1.2.1 User goals
1.2.1.1 Consignment Fill-up
1.2.1.1.1 Consignment Fill-up Order
1.2.1.1.2 Consignment Fill-up Delivery
1.2.1.2 Consignment Issue
1.2.1.3 Consignment Returns
1.2.1.4 Consignment Pick-up
1.2.1.4.1 Consignment Pick-up Order
1.2.1.4.2 Consignment Pick-up Delivery

Functional Specification: Consignment Sales Management
Section 1: Overview & Justification
Purpose:

Consignment sales is a form of business in which, as a service to the customer (Eg. A Retail Store), the company or vendor maintains a stock of their materials at a customer’s location. The company or vendor retains ownership of the materials until they are withdrawn from the consignment stores. The customer is only charged for product once it is reported as used.

Module Name = “Consignment Sales Management”
Module language = English and Spanish translation
Module url = [1]
Module author = Qualian Technologies
Module License=OB Commercial License

Section 2: Users & Business process description
User goals

In trading arrangement, Consignment sales play a vital role in placing any material in the hand of another. Business process flow in Consignment Sales consists of four major parts. They are

Consignment Fill-up
Consignment Issue
Consignment Returns
Consignment Pick-up


Consignment Fill-up

The core functionality of Consignment Fillup explains that the stocks can be replenished at the customer site is not accounted for neither invoicing nor pricing because the goods remain the property of your company. The two steps involved in consignment Fill up are

Consignment Fill-up Order
Consignment Fill-up Delivery

Consignment Fill-up Order

It’s a request from the customer through the sales representative of your company based on the demand of the product in market. So it doesn’t involve any invoicing or pricing of the product.

Consignment Fill-up Delivery

After the company has received a fill up order either from customer or through sales representative, the company shall deliver the goods at the customer site based on current stock. Even after the goods have been delivered, the company will retain the ownership until the goods are sold.


Consignment Issue

Consignment issue involves & explains the significant process of selling the goods. It enables the customer to sell the product from the stock available in their warehouse. This business transaction is relevant for billing from company to customer because the customer has sold the goods.

Consignment Returns

Consignment returns enables the customer to return the goods into the consignment stock that were already taken out of it. After consignment Issue, if customer finds any defects or any discrepancies they can return the product to consignment stock. This transaction is relevant for billing since the customer receives a credit for the returned goods.


Consignment Pick-up

After the products have been sold, the remaining consignment goods have to return back to the warehouse of your company.The two steps involved in consignment Pick-up are

Consignment Pick-up order
Consignment Pick-up delivery

Consignment Pick-up Order

Based on products not utilized at customer location, Sales representative or some other in-charge person will place a pickup order.

Consignment Pick-up Delivery

Based on pickup order,the person in charge from company takes the remaining products from customer location and stored it in the warehouse of the company.


http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/mwiki/index.php/ConsignmentSales/Functional_Specification_Document

http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/mwiki/index.php/ConsignmentSales/User_Manual