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.. i18n: port and destination company, products can get stopped for several weeks at sea or somewhere in the
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.. i18n: numerous transportation stages and customs. To manage such deliveries efficiently it's important to:
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.. i18n: Linked locations in OpenERP enable this all to be managed rather elegantly. You can use a structure
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.. i18n: The transit location are linked between themselves with a manual confirmation step. The internal
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.. i18n: stock move is validated at each port and customs arrival. OpenERP prepares all the linked moves
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.. i18n: Companies that do import / export should install the module :mod:`report_intrastat`.
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.. i18n: incoming products so that you can respond to a customer's needs as precisely as possible.
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location after a certain rental period.
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.. i18n: such as delivery and receipt after a few days are automatically suggested by OpenERP which
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.. i18n: You then have the product list found in the customer locations and your own stock in your stock
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location. The list of goods receipts waiting is automatically generated by OpenERP using the
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The same principle is used for internal stock to generate the quality control for certain products.
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.. i18n: certain products should be returned to you a certain number of days after they have been
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