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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have taken a deeper look at how to manage our inventory.

First, we played with the Product Attributes. In the Product Attributes, we could set additional information for all of our products. There are two types of attributes: non-instance attributes, and instance attributes. A "non-instance" attribute is a static product attribute such as the Shirt's color and size, and can be set up while registering (creating) the product in the Product window. An instance attribute is additional information or an attribute, and can be set up when receiving a raw material or when shipping finished goods. We have practiced how to set up information for both non-instance and instance attributes.

Then, we continued our discussion on how to book a material consumption for internal use (such as consuming material for an exhibition) and how to track this material movement using the Material Transactions window.

Later, we showed you how to perform stock counting and how to book any variance...