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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 have learned what is the minimum hardware specification for both the server and client computer, how to obtain the JDK, JRE, PostgreSQL databases, and the ADempiere application, and how to install JDK for the server and JRE for the client computer, set up the Java system variables and Windows path, and verify the settings with those of the computer. We also learned how to install the PostgreSQL database server, add and verify the PostgreSQL path, and configure the PostgreSQL client authentication properly, and how to configure the Windows Firewall to accept a database connection from the client computer.

We saw how to verify the ADempiere binary files, and how to set up the ADempiere server application and apply its patches. We were able to create a prerequisite login/role and an ADempiere database and to import a predefined database structure. We learned about the ADempiere application server memory usage allocation, starting and stopping an ADempiere application server, installing an ADempiere client application and verifying an established connection to the server.

In the next chapter, you will be introduced to performing certain tasks with ADempiere and you will be playing with a predefined GardenWorld sample company.