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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 Physical Inventory


In an effort to start an ADempiere implementation in the company, your warehouse manager might think of:

  • How to perform stock counting. This is important to know what is the latest outstanding balance status of our material. With this information, we can perform stock reconciliation between system and actual stock.

  • Whether there is any difference between system and actual stock levels, and how to book this variance in the system.

  • A way to migrate our existing raw material records into ADempiere.

These are just a couple of issues that might occur during the implementation of a new system such as ADempiere in your company.

Fortunately, ADempiere can help us to resolve these issues by using its Physical Inventory feature. We will go through the process of how to resolve these issues in detail in the following sections.

Stock counting and reconciliation

At the end of a month (or at the end of an accounting period), a company may have a procedure to check their stock of goods...