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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 the Chart of accounts template


While creating a client in ADempiere, we will require an initial chart of accounts to make the ADempiere accounting engine run properly. As you are no doubt aware of what a chart of accounts means by now, we will not get into the details of it. If you still need to know what chart of accounts exactly is, refer to http://www.accountingcoach.com/online-accounting-course/15Xpg01.html.

ADempiere has a feature to import an initial chart of accounts. This needs to be written in a specific format. For clarity, we can learn a lot about chart of accounts format from a predefined example of chart of accounts. In a standard installation, there will be a default list of charts of accounts examples that can be used for your reference. You can access this file from the C:\ADempiere\data\import folder. This folder contains several examples of charts of accounts in Excel format (xls) files and Comma Separated Values (csv) files.

It will be feasible to use the more...