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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, you have learned more about the sample business process cycle.

We started our discussion by looking at how to book charges that are incurred during procurement activities. To accomplish this task, we learned how to create a new instance of a cost element, saw an example of how to distribute these expenses by using the available cost distribution types, and also learned the distribution of expenses in detail.

We continued our discussion by looking at how to manufacture a product in this version of ADempiere by using the bill of material feature, involving both item and expenses type of products. After manufacturing the products, we created an offer letter for the customers. On receiving their confirmation, we raised a sales order document, delivered the product to the customer, and finally invoiced them. After performing these activities, we learned how to manage the payment (account receivable payment) and reconcile the transaction with our bank statement.

Towards the...