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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

Landed costs


We have to import material, and it's quite common that we need some help from the transportation company to pick our material up from the airport or seaport and send this material to our company's warehouses. For this type of service, the transportation company will raise an invoice document to get the payment.

There are many types of expenses that are incurred when handling raw material procurement. For example:

  • Transportation charges

  • Clearance charges

  • Custom duties

  • Handling charges, and so on

It would be better if ADempiere was able to handle these types of charges and apply these costs or charges directly to the raw material. With all of charges assigned to the raw material, we will know exactly how much to spend to acquire this material.

In the procurement context, landed cost is the total cost of goods including purchase price and all types of charges that may be incurred in delivering the ordered material to the company's warehouses.

The question is: how to map and book these...