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taras2013-12-24 19:16:06
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taras, 2013-12-24 19:16:06

Is there an online store engine with a logistics component?

Good afternoon,
there is a working online store of office furniture. We have our own small fleet of vehicles (4 cars) and sometimes we involve third-party carriers. We managed all this business manually, being content with the minimal functionality of Shop-script with minor improvements on our part (we made normal inventory accounting and product reserves).
With the growth of sales, the range of goods and problems has also increased. There were difficulties with warehouse accounting, the formation of route sheets and the timeliness of purchases. The quality of work has dropped. The main problem is that the processes that could be automated using the store engine fall on the shoulders of the logistician and managers. For example, purchases from suppliers are decentralized (each manager makes purchases from suppliers independently) and information about them is sent to the logistician by mail. Sometimes it turns out a complete mess and some of the goods are underloaded.
I honestly don't understand why all the online store engines I've seen think that the sales cycle looks like "New" -> "In Processing" -> ("Completed" or "Canceled")? Where's "handed over for delivery"? Where is the interface of the delivery dispatcher (logistician)? Are there really no medium-sized online stores with their own warehouse and their own delivery service that need to be managed? If I am trying to attach a fifth leg to a dog, please explain where I am wrong.
In fact,
I would like to choose an open source online store engine with the following functionality or which has one or more of the following features. You can pay, you can free:
- I would like to see a normal warehouse accounting system with reserves, acceptances, write-offs, inventories, etc. It is desirable that this is not a third-party service, because it is not possible to finish it for yourself;
- Procurement management - simple formation of the Order to the supplier based on the nomenclature, printing of documents for shipment, adding a shipment task for the delivery service. The ideal option is customizable minimum balances for goods, for the formation of shipments from suppliers in a semi-automatic mode.
- Delivery management: order processing, if successful, should end with the transfer of the order to the delivery manager for the formation of a route sheet. The delivery manager should be able to swap points in the interface, see all the points on the map. The result of the dispatcher's work should be route sheets for all cars from the fleet for the coming day. A mark on whether the order has been completed or canceled is already a post-process, which is controlled by the manager after delivery.

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Andrey Simonov, 2013-12-25
@AntLogist

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Michael, 2013-12-24
@Baaa

Look towards Bitrix - ecommerce.1c-bitrix.ru/features/store.php
I know one fairly large store that switched to Bitrix, and they seem to be happy with it. They have one physical large store in Moscow, and an online store with a large number of orders throughout the country. True, they do not have such a situation with suppliers that after an order by the buyer, it is necessary to buy the goods from the supplier, they have everything in their warehouse, and this is not furniture. Full accounting goes to 1C, cash desks in the store and the online store are interconnected.

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Andrey Efimov, 2016-09-26
@andrey_efimov

Good afternoon.
In my experience, there are plenty of stores like this. It's just that few of them are present on this resource. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all solution here. All stores handle this differently. Usually this is some kind of CRM + 1C + cloud services + a set of integrations. If you want, I can ask the clients how they solve this issue. My Slider service solves the third point - delivery management.

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