Enable kits containing child items to break the parent item when s

Aug 24, 2005 3 Replies

When a child item is sold in the POS, and its quantity is zero, it breaks open a parent item. It would be helpful if this was extended to building/selling kit items containing child items.



This can have many applications E.g. 2 batteries are packaged with a few toys into a kit- If the single battery qty is 0 the parent battery pack of 8 should be broken. E.g.2 A baker wants to sell a mudcake(kit item) comprising of 2 eggs, 500g flour, and 200g chocolate- he wants to keep track of the components used but actually sells cakes. They purchase trays, containing 30 eggs- when a mudcake is built and there are no single eggs left(child) the tray should be broken to build the cake kit.


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We have created a fix for this. The fix does the following:

1- When a KIT item is sold where the component of the kit is child item and where the KIT QTY is ZERO the child QTY is reduced but when it reaches ZERO the parent is not broken to populate the child. This causes problems in selling KIT and re-odering correctly. 2- When Parent Item is broken into child the cost of the child is not updated 3- when the cost of the child changes the cost of KIT does not get automatically updated.

If you need this fix please contact me.

Afshin Alikhani - [ snipped-for-privacy@retailrealm.co.uk] Retail Realm

Afshin

Does your fix work outside of kits? In other words, does it change the cost of the child when the cost of the parent item is changed.

If so, when does the change take place? When the parent item is changed or the next time the child breaks out a quantity?

We use many parent/child relationships but no kits, so my interest lies in these alone.

Regards Ken Nelson

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