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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

General Ledger distribution


We had an electricity bill of USD 1,500 this month. This bill covered electricity consumption for the Dress, Jacket, and Shirt organizations. Previously, we just entered these transactions one-by-one depending on the organization's allocation. Can ADempiere help us in such cases?

Yes, of course, ADempiere can help you with this issue. You can enter your total bill in a single transaction itself, and this amount will be distributed or allocated by ADempiere based on a predefined configuration. All you need to do is to configure your distribution percentage to all of the available organizations once, and then ADempiere will take care of the rest of the transaction.

Concept of GL distribution

There is some basic information that needs to be known, such as how to configure such a distribution. Navigate to the Menu | Performance Analysis | Accounting Rules | GL Distribution window. This contains two tabs: Distribution and Line. The important configuration of the Distribution...