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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

Knowing the General workflow—a step-by-step guide


This type of workflow is aimed at providing guidance as well as step-by-step instructions to perform a task. This series of activities involves several ADempiere windows and/or forms or processes, which involve the user in each of the activities. You can access all of the preconfigured general workflow in the ADempiere Menu.

Example of general workflow

One example form of standard general workflow available is Product Setup. Log in with user ID admin, using Sistematika Fashion, Ltd Admin as the role and Shirt as the organization. Access this workflow by clicking on Menu | Material Management | Material Management Rules | Product Setup. As you can see, this workflow is a sequential, or step-by-step activity, as shown in the following screenshot:

The activities related to setting up a Product are available in the Workflow tab. We need to open, review, and enter any information in the Warehouse & Locators, Unit of Measure, Product Category...