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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

ADempiere company structures


How do we map company structures into ADempiere?

ADempiere generally sets up a company hierarchy and we can map it with Sistematika Fashion, Ltd., as shown in the following screenshot:

In short, it means that one or more Locators will be connected to only one Warehouse, one or more Warehouses will be connected to only one Organization, and one or more organization will be connected to only one Client.

Refer to the table below for a detailed description of terms:

Terms

Description

Client

The highest entity in ADempiere that can be set up as our company's legal entity. All of the data that is set up in this level can be read by all organizations belonging to this company. ADempiere allows us to have one or more clients in the system. If we enter any information for a specific client (and not System client), no other client will be granted access to, or be allowed to share that data. When we enter information through the System client, all other clients will be...