Multiple Sites
GnuMims is designed around the concept of one installation per site. Smaller store depo's and auxiliary sites can be supported in a single installation but for anything more one complete gnuMims installation per site is recommended. The reasoning for this is detailed bellow.
Assets
GnuMims is at heart an asset management solution and as such is used to manage the maintenance and inventory for any list or group of assets. A typical usage is for the maintenance of production assets or machines on an industrial or commercial site. The asset tree is grouped by site and section. However this does not preclude the management of physically or geographically diverse assets, any logical grouping may be applied.
Inventory
Multiple storage locations are supported but each inventory item may only be stored in one location.
An early gnuMims data model actually had the ability to store an inventory item in multiple locations but this was simply way too complicated and confusing to the end user. For example a technician wanting to use an inventory item has to be aware of which bin in which store on which site he is actually booking the item out from. This results in far too many human input errors so the model and interface were simplified.
Further more storing an inventory item in multiple locations on a single site is generally bad for inventory levels and the opposite of inventory consolidation which is much preferred.
To store an item in more than one location a separate inventory item with a unique name must be created along with all its own attributes. In this way items may be stored in depo's, auxiliary sites and remote stores. The re-order points and current stock levels may then be recorded appropriately for each. The inventory items may then be linked via the alternate item field.
Tasks
On a day to day basis separate sites don't care what another site is doing and don't need the other sites tasks mixed in with theirs.
Conclusion
With a little data administration a complete and separate installation per site is easily achieved and the best configuration.
