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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 internal use of inventory


Sometimes, our company organizes exhibitions to show off our finished goods products and our raw materials to our prospective customers or even to the public. In such exhibitions, the company takes a small amount of our existing raw material. As it takes the pieces of raw material from our warehouses, could we book this type of transaction as our advertising and/or promotion costs?

Another example that can be considered is where you have broken or damaged inventory—you would also need to book this transaction. This is just an example of the cases that are handled by warehouse staff, which could be solved by using the Internal Use Inventory feature. You can use this feature by accessing the Menu | Material Management | Internal Use Inventory window. This window contains two tabs: Internal Use and Internal Use Line.

In manual activities, the warehouse staff simply takes a piece of material or product out of the warehouse and notes this activity in their log...