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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

Document value workflow


Our Manager talked about a rule or condition. If there are any activities to cancel (void) an existing document (for example, a purchase order document related to a specific business partner), then the system should give us an alert that this document has been canceled. Could you help me to accommodate the manager's requirement?

We will send the Manager a notification e-mail if there are any purchase order cancellations for a certain business partner. We will look at how ADempiere catches the condition itself.

ADempiere has a mechanism for monitoring a new value inserted or updated in its database table, when saving any information. This saving activity can be triggered by:

  • The user: User clicks on the Save button.

  • Internal ADempiere system: An internal ADempiere process and\or calculation inserts or updates any information.

Both of these conditions are monitored by default. In your case, we just need to tell ADempiere:

Please help me in monitoring the purchase order document...