request for comments on inventory experiment

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:53:26PM -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote:
> 
> The comments made about how to handle inventory are incorrect for
> basic inventory - but PERFECT for a structured BOM.

I was discussing one possible situation. My supposition was that if we
implemetn basic inventory, then someone will want something more
sophisticated, like this BOM (clarify please?).  

In my opinion, more sophisticated inventory doesn't really belong in
gnucash. And even basic inventory could quickly get out of hand. In my
very small business we inventory something like 150 different items
with on-hand quantities ranging from a few pieces to a couple hundred
pieces. I really don't think it would be practical to track that
inventory at the item level in gnucash. I imagine that larger
businesses than mine would exceed those numbers by several orders of
magnitude.

Tracking basic inventory is really better handled in POS systems for
anything but the very smallest of businesses. It's much better, IMO to
report out the changes in inventory value from some system external to
gnucash and then just record the value of inventory. 

But having said all that, I do think it's possible to track inventory
in the commodity accoutns, or something very similar to it.

.02

A
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