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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

Product management


In ADempiere, Products is a term used for something that you buy or sell. These products include products sold to customers, products used in the manufacturing of products that are sold to customers, and products that are purchased by an organization. When you buy or sell a Product, it will require a price as one of the Product's attributes.

Product Type

Another important Product attribute is Product Type. The list of ADempiere Product Types and their meanings are listed as follows:

No

Product Type

Description

1

Item

Physical goods that you buy or sell: The system will set an inventory for these goods. For example, Shirts and Dress cloth.

2

Expense Type

Physical or non physical goods that you buy or sell: The system will not set an inventory for these goods. For example, stationery expenses.

3

Service

No physical goods are received or sent when we buy or sell this product type: It is just a service. For example, consulting fees.

4

Resource

This is like Service...