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ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions

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ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions

Overview of this book

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are essential in today's business market. There are many options for ERP systems; however, ADempiere offers a solid foundation for developing a powerful ERP system that helps your business to manage data efficiently, streamline different processes, lower costs, and improve the efficiency levels without too much complexity. This practical book offers a comprehensive understanding of ADempiere and a look at its main features by way of developing and enhancing a sample case study from concept to deployment. This book will help you model complex business processes with ease. You will learn to install ADempiere followed by configuring the company structure and the initial client set up. You can start working with ADempiere immediately because this book will get you up and running quickly and assumes no knowledge or experience of working with ADempiere. ADempiere3.4 ERP Solutions enables you to set up the accounting parts, define the prerequisite data, learn about product and price management, and perform procurement and sales activities. When you read the book, you'll understand the concept behind the ADempiere workflow and the important function of managing the inventory. Activities such as making user-defined financial reports, procedures on importing data, and security will be covered in detail, and you will also learn about the application dictionary. ADempiere generates accounting facts/journals automatically. In this book, you will understand the impact of these accounting facts in detail. This book will give you a comprehensive study on how to easily implement ADempiere and make the best use of this open source ERP system.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Managing ADempiere client


After successfully logging on to your ADempiere client using the GardenAdmin user ID, you will first be directed to the Performance tab. This tab contains a list of performance goal charts and bar charts. These charts are just an example of the default predefined charts. Navigate to the Menu tab to access the list of menus available, as shown in the following screenshot:

In general, there are four main tabs available on the screen: Performance, Menu, Workflow Activities, and Workflow.

  • The Performance tab is used for measuring the performance of the company. This type of information is configurable and could be attached to a certain Role, in case we need to limit the user rights while accessing this information.

  • The Menu tab allows you to access all of the menus within ADempiere. It can be used to access Windows, Forms, Reports, Processes, and General Workflows. Examples of menus are Purchase Order, Sales Order, Product, and so on. The availability of these menus...