1. Catalog Management

2. Summary
Organizational units
What’s in a store
What’s in a product

3. 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

4. The Store General Inventory Shopping cart Shipping Payments Orders
Status

5. The Store (Illustration)

6. 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

7. 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

8. The Store: Shopping Cart
Describe how shopping cart behaves

9. The Store: Shipping
Allow different items to have different payment types

10. The Store: Payments
Credit validity and credit card behavior

11. The Catalog A store has catalogs
And a catalog is organized hierarchically so that users can find products

12. The Catalog

13. 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

14. Products: Header A product gets and ID when created and has a type
And there are many products types
Raw materials, finished goods, assemblies…

15. 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

16. Product: Dates and Inventory
Products have dates that describe when a product is available, discontinued, etc..

17. Product: Measurements
Products have general measurements (sizes and dimensions)

18. Products: Pricing
Products have pricing schedules

19. Products: Pricing

20. Products: Promotions Products can have promotions
Promotions have general characteristics
Promotions have rules
Promotions apply to a store

21. Products: Promotions

22. Products: Promotions xx

23. Products: Promotions
Promotion rules have conditions and actions

24. Products: Promotions
Promotions apply to a store

25. Products: Associations
Products can be associated with other products
That’s how the catalogs work

26. Products: Keywords
And we setup keywords for search

27. Products: Features
Product features give us another way to deal with things like colors and sizes
Preature types
Feature categories

28. Features (Types)
Feature types are features possessed by a product (color or size)

29. Features (Categories)
Feature categories belong to a type