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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

Understanding ADempiere workflow


Workflow is defined as a step-by-step activity to complete a task that involves both the people and the system. As a default, all of the documents in ADempiere (for example, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, MM Receipt, and so on) are automatically workflow-enabled and are easy to extend or modify. Before we extend or modify anything, we need to know the details of how ADempiere Workflow works.

Now, log in to System (with the user ID System and System Administrator as the role), and open the Menu | System Admin | General Rules | Workflow | Workflow window. This window contains six tabs: Workflow, Access, Node, Parameter, Transition, and Condition.

Knowing the workflow for an ADempiere document

The basic principle is that, the ADempiere Document Process and Document Value workflow will be configured based on table information.

While all of the documents in ADempiere are workflow enabled, how do you know the relationship between ADempiere documents, workflow...