Magento

Feel free to edit, add or remove any features to the list below.

• Supplier Managment
  • Add, Edit and Remove Suppliers
    • Contact info, supplier name, rep info, account number, lead times etc. . .
    • [Multiple Representatives]
    • [Custom field creation similar to product attributes]
  • Associate Suppliers with individual products
    • [Associate multiple suppliers with single products]
      • Allow each supplier to have it’s own product’s cost/price tier; Each product price and cost must be associated with a particular supplier. The Magento “cost” attribute should automatically reflect the primary cost/price (trigger via DB?).
      • Allow each supplier to have it’s own SKU code (to tie in to purchase orders)

• [Inventory Management]
  • Set low levels per product for re-order or allow system to predict when stock should be re-order based on predicted sales/supplier lead time.
  • Alert when low levels are reached and allow products to be added to purchase order creation
    • Can be like Magento’s upgrade notification in admin section
    • Can be an email or text message
    • Can be RSS feed
    • Can be a Dashboard warning/alert/notification
    • Or all the above
  • Re-Order amounts based on previous sales periods (large/strange orders in previous period should be highlighted/ignored), user defined, current sales status or with feedback from 3rd party such as http://www.lokad.com/ (although I have not used this service myself...yet). Supplier lead times need to be considered.
  • Inventory adjustment reasons
  • Automatically start purchase order based on backorders

• Purchase Order Tracking
  • Create supplier purchase order based on inventory levels and/or add new products manually to purchase order
    • Configurable PO numbering like sequential, manual, datetime, account number, sequential + rand(1,3) etc.
    • Custom Notes
    • Track purchase orders
      • Creation
      • Confirm PO received by supplier (1pixel img bug or otherwise)
      • Paid and awaiting goods (on a per item basis)
      • Received and awaiting payment (on a per item basis)
      • Received and Paid (on a per item basis)
    • Track item return/credit..due to being damaged on arrival etc
      • Returned and awaiting credit (on a per item basis)
      • Returned and credited (on a per item basis)
    • Cancel Purchase Order
  • [Submit purchase orders to supplier]
    • Printable sheet that can be faxed, mailed . . .
    • Electronic
      • Email
        • excel sheet
        • html layout
        • attached file (PDF or other)
      • Downloadable file
        • csv
        • xml
      • Api
        • Direct supplier tie in
        • Credit card processing
        • Bank Draft

• [Additional Features]
  • Reporting Integration
  • Approve orders and forward purchase orders through a cell phone.