Suitable for artisan?

["Simon Haines" <..hidden..>]

Hi, I'm looking at properly organising the accounting of my
girlfriend's business and was wondering if LedgerSMB can help...

She's a jeweller and does not sell directly to
customers, but loans her items to galleries who then display them for
sale (with their markup). Every month or so each gallery sends her a
list of items sold that month and requests an invoice. Her accounting
kit needs to have some sort of inventory management (can warehousing
cover this?) where a partner location is assigned stock and then the
items in their stock list can be turned into sales invoices if
required, or transferred back to the main 'warehouse' (when items
aren't sold by galleries, they are returned). In this regard, she does
not directly make sales to customers.

I remember reading some months ago that LedgerSMB is proposing an
inventory management feature. Is this still on the cards? Can LedgerSMB
handle this particular requirement without kludges and hacks? I know an
ERP like TinyERP or OpenBravo can cover this scenario, but she's a
one-person show and ERP is simply overkill. I like the size and scope
of LedgerSMB as a good solution for her, I just can't see how (from
reading the manual) I can set it up to cover the gallery scenario.

Thanks for any advice on offer,
Simon.