Catalog Management
Summary Organizational units What’s in a store What’s in a product
Organizational Units We sell products out of a store Stores can be organized into groups A store has a one or more catalogs Catalogs have product categories Product categories have products
The Store General Inventory Shopping cart Shipping Payments Orders Status
The Store (Illustration)
The Store: General The store name and whether this is a test store or not Define the visual appearance This is really just a CSS style
The Store: Inventory Where is the inventory stored? Hold for review Require inventory to process order How to reserve inventory Whether to manage lot numbers
The Store: Shopping Cart Describe how shopping cart behaves
The Store: Shipping Allow different items to have different payment types
The Store: Payments Credit validity and credit card behavior
The Catalog A store has catalogs And a catalog is organized hierarchically so that users can find products
The Catalog
Products There are facets to products in OFBiz and most ERPs Catalogs and Product categories contain products Pricing are rules that determine the price of a product at an instant in time There are also promotions Warehouse inventory is an instance of a product It occupies a place in the warehouse and might have a lot number Products have features
Products: Header A product gets and ID when created and has a type And there are many products types Raw materials, finished goods, assemblies…
Products: Type and Category Virtual products are configurable things Bikes are the same but have a different color Accessories I’ll not go that far Primary category contains the catalog category
Product: Dates and Inventory Products have dates that describe when a product is available, discontinued, etc..
Product: Measurements Products have general measurements (sizes and dimensions)
Products: Pricing Products have pricing schedules
Products: Pricing
Products: Promotions Products can have promotions Promotions have general characteristics Promotions have rules Promotions apply to a store
Products: Promotions
Products: Promotions xx
Products: Promotions Promotion rules have conditions and actions
Products: Promotions Promotions apply to a store
Products: Associations Products can be associated with other products That’s how the catalogs work
Products: Keywords And we setup keywords for search
Products: Features Product features give us another way to deal with things like colors and sizes Preature types Feature categories
Features (Types) Feature types are features possessed by a product (color or size)
Features (Categories) Feature categories belong to a type