set multiple costs and qty for products

Question

I have been trying to find something out there that would let me tie more then one cost and qty for each wholesaler I have for a product. Really what I need is to not just add a new cost and qty tie to a product over what is in the product model but that I'd need to be able to overwrite the qty to have the output be the total of all the tied entries to that product. My first thought was to just make a table where it had a list of the supplier with their cost and qty that ties to a product. Not totally clear where to start on that, but then I figured someone has made this already. Anyone have an idea how to start it or a stub or module already sort of close to what I'm asking about?

Answer 1

This is similar to the multi-warehouse problem where you have different inventories in different warehouses. For your purposes, each vendor/supplier would be a "warehouse" with the total qty showing up in the product total.

There are 3-4 warehouse extensions that I think could accomplish this for you. Some will allow you to set up rules for which inventory is used when an order is placed or allow the customer to select. If these are dropship then there are extensions for that as well. (I don't work for any of these companies: ) In no particular order I have looked at InnoExts EmbeddedERP Aitoc some others not listed.

My experience is that I have been looking for a multi-warehouse solution that allow shipping from that location and I see the connection / similarity with your problem as stated.

Answer 2

In this case you want to set up multiple simple products with differing qty, wholesaler/vendor and pricing/cost attributes in the backend, relating them for the frontend as a singular configurable product.

When a customer chooses a product feature that defines it to be sold from a particular vendor it will deduct the qty from that vendor alone.