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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

Taking a look at the other configuration parts


There is so much stuff that is involved during the initial creation process. These can be either accounting configuration related, or entities such as calendar and periods, the standard user ID, default role and user ID rights, the standard ADempiere documents, and so on.

In this section, you will be introduced to the most important things to know.

Accounting schema

Accounting schema is a standard for ADempiere, and is also the mother of all accounting configurations. This window will show a predefined International GAAP accounting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Accrual or cash-based accounting, Standard Costing for costing methods, USD as its base currency, History and Future Days for allowing document completions, and will define the standard accounts that can be used as default accounts (such as Product Asset, Product Revenue, and so on). This can be found on the Defaults tab.

The standard account values come from the predefined...