show supplier price breaks at build order

[CarlosDerSeher]

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Problem statement

I've got a build order like so

now there are parts which are available from different suppliers

The 10uF capacitor is a very good example for this, as there could be a number of possible parts from the suppliers because different manufacturers will be possible too. Now as you can see in the first picture I am out of stock and of course I want to order the cheapest parts possible but there is no way to get this information except when opening the part and inspect there, which is very time consuming.

Suggested solution

Either when clicking order stock show this information when supplier is chosen, could look similar like below

Or even better provide an exand option per part (similar like it is for sub assemblies) and show price information of suppliers in ascending order and next to it provide a order stock button

Describe alternatives you've considered

open every part on the supplier webpage before and check pricing there. This is our current workflow and then entering all this info into an excel BOM. This can be very tedious as it needs to be done often for different orders

Examples of other systems

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[SchrodingersGat]

@CarlosDerSeher I believe this falls within the scope of our UI refactor - we are reworking the entire frontend UI to use React and more modern UX approaches.

Improvements in general to the "order parts" dialog would be great. @LavissaWoW you recently implemented similar dialogs for receiving items and updating stock, do you have any thoughts about the "order parts" dialogs?

[LavissaWoW]

Sounds very doable. Without looking at the API endpoints here, I suspect we could perform some auxiliary calls, or annotate the info. Making a collapsible field of pricing (like the location TV fields of line receive) is also a possibility.

[CarlosDerSeher]

@SchrodingersGat @LavissaWoW I think this would be a great feature. It would be even better if we could show the cheapest supplier at build order even if I am not out of stock. This way I'll always have an overview of the current cost as if I would have to order all the parts. It would make the step of evaluating quations to our customers much easier to me and hopefully others :)

Oh and when is this refactor expected to be released or are there any chances such functionallity will be implemented in a 0.x.x version?

[SchrodingersGat]

Oh and when is this refactor expected to be released or are there any chances such functionallity will be implemented in a 0.x.x version?

The refactor is well underway - you can see progress at https://demo.inventree.org/platform - new features appear there as we add them.

Note that the new interface is still lacking in a lot of areas - contributions are always welcome :)

[CarlosDerSeher]

Thank you. I am very new to inventree but I will definitly have a look at the code and try to setup a dev container to play with when I find some time.

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