With other proprietary ERP systems, if a third party such as a customer, vendor, or employee has a relationship with the company, then information related to the third party will be set up in a certain window. It is up to the ERP system to handle this data and manage the third-party data effectively.
ADempiere has a different approach to managing its customer, vendor, and employee information. In general, they all have the same data characteristics or attributes such as name, addresses, tax identity, and so on. If there is any specific information required, then ADempiere will have a special tab to set this information. With this flexibility, we can enter our customer, vendor, and employee information into just one centralized window called Business Partner.
In this window, we can set a third party to become:
Either a customer or a vendor
Both a customer and a vendor
A customer, a vendor, and also an employee
Thus, we can eliminate third-party data duplication.