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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, we saw the major accounting parts of configuration for ADempiere.

First, we discussed about the Account Element. During the initial client creation in the previous chapters, we had already configured a list of accounts in the chart of accounts file. All of these preconfigured accounts can be accessed from the Account Element window. You are free to add an additional account when needed. In this section, we also discussed the functions of the summary account and of the document controlled, post actual, budget, and statistical parts of an account.

The account itself is used when generating accounting facts/GL journal entries. In addition to the account, there are many other dimensions (such as product, business partner, and so on) involved, and these are all joined together to construct accounting facts and GL journal information.

Then we discussed the heart of ADempiere accounting configuration, that is, the Accounting Schema. In this, we covered the configuration for...