sale_dropshipping: no dropshipping (by default) if stock available

[Alexandre Fayolle - camptocamp]

Case at hand: I have a product in MTO + buy + supplier does drop shipping.

If the virtual stock available is <=0 a SO for this product will be configured in drop shipping for the SO line.

OTOH, if there is some virtual stock, then the SO line will use the normal sale flow, regardless of the procurement method of the SO line. I think that the fact that the line type is make_to_order should prevent having a "normal" flow in this case, and that the check described above should only be performed for lines with type make_to_stock (in which case we want the order point to be substituted with a drop shipping).

[Nicolas Bessi - Camptocamp (nbessi-c2c-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello,

Well practically it can be logic to use your stock first. But in other case you want to always use drop shipping as your supplier can have better condition when delivering product. IMHO this parameter should be at supplier info level, because you may want to have a given behavior by supplier. The problem is that the drop shipping check box does not offer enough flexibility.

I think one solution is to change the boolean fields on supplier info to a selection field with (standard, force drop shipping, drop shipping when no stock) and adapt code consequently.

Regards

Nicolas

[Joël Grand-Guillaume @ camptocamp (jgrandguillaume-c2c)]

Hi,

I also think that there is no "real" rules here and it probably depend a lot from the context of the company. The most important is not to break the backward compatibility here. We use it and override this module for 2 of our major customer so please be careful.

If the decision is to improve it, may be a second module should be made to prevent regression.

Regards,

Joël