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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

Introduction to the ADempiere standard printing feature


For each of the standard ADempiere windows, you will see a standard toolbar, which contains icons such as the ones shown in following screenshot:

From the left-hand side to the right-hand side of the previous screenshot, the names of the buttons in the toolbar are:

  • Report

  • Archived Documents/Reports

  • Print Preview

  • Print

You can refer to the Other tasks section under the Performing tasks heading in Chapter 2, Exploring the ADempiere Client and Performing Tasks, for the preliminary explanation of these buttons. We will show examples of the use of these buttons in following sections.

Accessing the Report button

The main purpose of this button is to display columnar information for a selected document in the window.

Log in with user ID admin, using Sistematika Fashion, Ltd Admin as the role, and Shirt as the organization. Open the Menu | Requisition-to-Invoice | Purchase Order window. Having performed the activities in the earlier chapters, you...