Blue Print - Requests

Introduction

Sahana Eden needs to be able to manage requests for:

• Items (Supplies)
• Assets
• People
• Shelter

This requires tracking requests, commitments to fulfill requests and the final fulfillment of requests.

Current Status

• UserGuidelines/Logistics
• Requests can be created for Items or Skills (or named People)
• Requests have to be made for a Site/Facility
• Requests can optionally have a Commit stage before fulfillment
• Fulfillment can link straight to Shipments
• Recurring Requests can be scheduled

To Do

• Complete support for Assets
• Add support for Shelter

Estimation

• For Shelters #families/#people => Auto Calculate Food/Water/Toiletries for base recurring requests
• Values are stored in localisable Scenario Templates
• Reports created to allow comparison of templates against historical data

Notes from Pakistan

• Default Items' Pack Value to a value in the Catalog & allow manual updating to actual if-necessary
  • Doc: in a Procurement system, this is the max price that the budget holder (approver) is authorising, so they need to be checked back with before purchasing if the price is higher.
• Imperial vs. metric UoM
• Add more help to the req_item_inv_item page
• Add Assets to Requests (as Components)
• Remove req_item_id from inv_send and inv_recv. This link was used to show which shipments we meeting a request. Use a resource link instead.
• Adjust the commit button so that it only appears for un-fulfiled commitments
• Create a better work-flow link from Req -> Commit -> Send -> Recv
  • Disable a single commitment to sent multiple times
• Functionality to show requests which can be fulfilled by the items in a inventory (and perhaps visa versa).
• Ensure that only one packet per item can have a quantity = 1 (and thus be the unit of measure for that item)
• Request Timetable options?
  • 'Immediate'
• Add Unique ID numbers to transactions [Site Code]-[Sequential Number]?

Also See

• UserGuidelines/Logistics

Other Requirements

• HaitiRMSToDo
• User Guide for Sahana Agasti: ​http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php?id=doc:rms:english
• Wireframes for a proposed system for Nashville Floods: ​http://bit.ly/9UW0tA