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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

Introducing Product Attributes


Upon receiving material from your vendor (for example, S Fabric), your warehouse staff may need information that has a direct relation with his or her job such as:

  • What is the fabric's color?

  • What is the fabric's pattern?

  • Is there any serial number identification available (a unique identity from your vendor) in each of the fabric rolls received?

All of this available information can help your warehouse staff to identify a material. It is really important to keep, let's say, a serial number or any other identity that comes from your vendor. If we need to send a material replacement request (due to the unacceptable quality of material, different fabric pattern, and so on), we can make a reference to this serial number as an identity when communicating with our vendors or suppliers.

For our internal warehouse references, with the various materials available in the warehouse, we need to think of how to identify our material. It will help us if we can identify these...