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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

Manufacturing finished goods—shirts


We are now ready to manufacture shirts. The prerequisites to manufacture shirts are:

  • Setting up a Bill of Material. This is to define the raw material composition used to produce the final product.

  • Creating a Production.

With this version of ADempiere, the manufacturing process will be a simple task. It requires the Bill of Material configuration only. We will practice manufacturing ten shirts.

Bill of material (BOM)

Consider the real life situation where you need to buy a lot of food products to fulfill the necessities of life. This could include bread, milk, fruits, snacks, vegetables, and so on. Closely observe what's written the milk carton. The carton contains a list of its ingredients. Manufacturers share the information of the composition of milk with the customers.

In our discussion, bill of material is the term used to describe the specification of the raw materials and quantities needed to manufacture a product. In this case, the creation of shirts...