scheduling partial shipments

[David Janssens]

Currently, packing lists are not created automatically from sales orders with partial shipments.
Suppose i make a SO with qty=10 for a MTS product and i have 3 products in stock.
After running the scheduler, i would like a PO for 7 to be created and a picking list of 3 to be assigned. (because 3 products can be sent immediately and 7 have to be purchased, supposing min stock rule with min_stock=0 max_stock=0).
But, openerp currently only creates the PO of 7 and leaves the packing list qty=10 state=confirmed. So the stock worker has to make manually a partial shipment of 3, it would be better if this was already planned by the scheduler beforehand.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Mayank Goel (mac-goel)]

I have also seen the same thing.

[Jan Verlaan (jan-verlaan)]

Several issues with partial deliveries are solved with bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/399817
A patch is included with comment 20. We are waiting for inclusion this patch in stable.

Regarding auto splitting deliveries in partials based on current inventory and PO this is not included into the mentioned fix. I really have my doubts if this would be correct too, as this will generate 2 shipping's per default which is not common practice. Normally one will decide based on expecting receiving date of the not yet available goods or a agreement with the customer if a partial delivery is needed or not.

[Mayank Goel (mac-goel)]

The problem of partial shipment have been solved in the Openerp 5.0.2 ver.
You can install it.

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

I don't think Open ERP should create two shipments. It create one proposition of shipment and, the partial shipment will be generated when the worker does the packing. (if you set partial delivery in the SO)