Inventory & Purchase Orders / Sales Orders

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That idea mostly encompasses what we would like, except we would like it to show up as a column in the Orders, Customers and Inventory windows in addition to being able to run a report. Instead of having 6 columns devoted to inventory on the Inventory page, it might make more sense for it to be user configurable to their workflow (i.e. either show pending invoices or pending orders in those columns).

And when a Sales Order is partially invoiced & delivery note made, the next time from same sales order, delivery note or invoice should automatically bring only those items / those quantity not delivered yet. Once all delivered the sales Order should have a flag “completed” and should not allow delivery or invoice.

(From the previous thread). This would be great, but also show the amount that did not shipped / was not invoiced as backordered so the customer is not wondering where the rest of their stuff is when they receive their shipment, which generates more calls and is time consuming for sales staff. We have a large number of backorders and it is essential for our accounting system to deal with them well.

I realize that you probably have a huge list of feature requests and obviously have to prioritize them, as well as I’m not sure how Manager is written in the back end, but to just show the quantity columns it seems like a rather simple switch, perhaps something like this:

switch($qty_track_method) {
    case "orders":
          $purchase_qty_label = "Qty on order";
          $purchase_qty = $qty_purchase_order - $goods_delivery_qty;
          $ship_qty_label = "Qty for customer order";
          $ship_qty = $qty_sales_order - $delivery_notes_qty;
          break;

    case "invoices":
    default:
          $purchase_qty_label = "Qty to receive";
          $purchase_qty = $qty_purchase_invoiced - $goods_delivery_qty;
          $ship_qty_label = "Qty to deliver";
          $ship_qty = $qty_sales_invoiced - $delivery_notes_qty;
          break;
}

Our current accounting system is quite old and we quite urgently need to switch to a new system. We would like that new system to be Manager and to purchase a server license to deploy it on our server, but there are some essential features missing that we have to figure out first, of which this one quite possibly the most important: having proper inventory order and backorder tracking. The second would likely be being able to easily see history for customers and inventory items (see here).