I honestly can’t believe that I cannot find anything on this topic …
It is an absolutely normal process for any business to have multiple pricelists from multiple suppliers on a huge range of input products repeating for each supplier (think RFP processes for a range of products from multiple suppliers).
Why is it not possible to derive a consolidated master purchase list that automatically picks the cheapest price + supplier for every product belonging to purchasing price lists?
I can seriously programm the SELECT statement for that in around 15min, never mind actually using pythonic methods in a script … what am I missing here? Why am I not seeing an easy way on how to create such a consolidated list automatically?
A list with the product, lowest rate and the supplier for each product is ok?
In this case you are right, this seems doable with a single report … but … what happens with UOMs? Valid from and Valid upto dates?
I’m just talking about prices lists. Note that pricing rules and promotional schemes are even more complicated: discounts, mixing combinations, crossed buyings, periods, min qtys … Is not achievable with a simple SQL query …
I have a solar install business, so I will create BOM-Subcomponents, and out of those subcomponents I will create customer products, and out of those products I will create customer offers.
I need these consolidated price-lists simply for manufacturing and planing of my BOM-Subcomponents.
UOMs? I always work with normalized units
Why should I care about Valid from, upto dates? There must be only one type of price-list: a price-list with valid data … separation of concerns, one step at a time.
Why should I care? Keep things simple and organized one step at a time. All of that is merely the last step of an offering.
I understand that you don’t need features like UOMs, periods, etc … but a ERPNext standard process have to consider all the possible scenarios.
So, you requirement is a “non-standard” requirement. I think should be covered with a custom report.
It’s really easy to get this kind of reports based on SQL querys. Have you some experience with this?
I am by profession a microservice programmer in Java and JS, so yes, I a can do a fair amount of SQL. Where can I read up on custom reports? I also haven’t yet had a look at the DB and its schema.
You can use console on ERPNext GUI to explore database (login as admin). Search “System Console” on Awesome Bar. If you have access to the server terminal, you can use mariadb console
bench mariadb
I think that a good approach could be selecting all the items table and make subselects with item price inner join price lists, to get the lowest rate of each one, provider data, etc …
Items → tabItem
Item Price → tabItem Price
Price list → tabPrice List
If you are working with BOM, Material requests … you can start from there … A good idea could be make a report from the document to get prices just for the items involved on them, avoiding get all the items on the database .
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Hope this helps.
If i’m not mistaken, it’s called multi dimensional price / customer price tag / customer special price. different accounting software/erp has their own naming.
this screenshot is from a accounting software named “AutoCount” . as you can see price can be set based on quantity, customer, time period and so on.
