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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

Re-posting a document


Before we discuss the accounting configuration, you need to know about a special feature related to the document posting behavior. In ADempiere, we can force the system to re-post a document.

When re-posting a document, ADempiere will:

  • Drop the existing accounting facts or GL journal entries belonging to this document

  • Re-read all of the accounting configuration and accounting information involved

  • Generate new accounting facts or GL journal entries based on the new accounting configuration information

Note

Re-posting a document should only be done for open accounting periods.

After changing the accounting configuration in the Accounting Schema window, we need to force the ADempiere system to get the latest configuration, by performing the following tasks:

  1. Log out from the ADempiere client application.

  2. Shut down the ADempiere application server.

  3. Re-start the ADempiere application server.

  4. Log in again to the ADempiere client application.

    In this case, we will log in with the user...