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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

Reporting Hierarchy


Previously, we created a report summary by using all of the available financial data in the selected active periods. There are some questions raised during our implementation, such as: how to produce this financial report for a specific business partner and/or product only?

ADempiere has a feature to create summary reports based on the selection or criteria of available account schema element configuration. In order to determine your account schema element configuration, you can open the Accounting Schema window, and navigate to the Account Schema Element tab. In the author's ADempiere system, we get the following list of active account schema elements:

You can create a summary of financial reports with a combination option of available account schema elements, such as Organization and Product. In the Organization and Product account schema element, we can determine the selection information required (such as Shirt for Organization and S Fabric, S Button, and S Label...