[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Thinking about receiving

[Mike Rylander]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2008 8:54 David J. Fiander wrote:
>> Receiving needs to be efficient, since it's most definitely a
>> materials handling process above everything else.
>>
>> Imagine that the staff have opened a box and dug out the packing
>> slip / invoice.
>>
>> Once they've checked that against the contents of the box against the
>> slip, they're ready to start checking materials into the system.
>>
>> They go to the receiving screen, which comes up with today's date,
>> which will be used as the "actual received date" in the acqlids that
>> are updated.
>>
>> In order to properly track things, the acqlid should probably have an
>> invoice # field.  On the receiving screen, there will be a field at
>> the top into which the staff member enters the current invoice
>> number, which will then be applied to all the acqlids that are updated.
>>
>> The primary field on the receiving screen is an ISBN input field. The
>> staff scan the ISBN barcode on each item, which pulls up the
>> corresponding JUB.
>
> This seems like a reasonable approach.  I guess this screen will also have a
> box for ISSN, etc.

Learning/stealing from Vandelay, we could add an identifier boolean to
acq.lineitem_attr_definition, and simply search all of these attrs as
an exact-match from a single search box.  Add ISBN, ISSN, UPC, po
number (as a vendor attribute), ASN id, etc.  We'd also want to search
the barcode on lineitem_detail for detecting shelf-ready items.

Eh?

--miker

>
> I think it would also be good to support using the PO as the receiving entry
> point.  Assuming the PO number is included with the invoice, staff can pull
> up the PO by ID and mark all items or individual items as received.
>
> Dan S. also submitted a work flow at
>
> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=acq:scenarios:receiving_monographs
>
> -b
>
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> Bill Erickson
> | VP, Software Development & Integration
> | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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Mike Rylander
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