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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

Chapter 3. Exploring Company Structures and the Initial Client Setup

While preparing for an ADempiere implementation, we have to know exactly how to map our company structures into ADempiere. Consider the next example from the fashion industry. An apparel company will have at least one or more Facility (plant) at which to manufacture clothes. It will also have one or more Warehouses in which to put the Raw Materials and Finished Goods.

There is no strict guidance on how to map your company structure into ADempiere. It is an art. In ADempiere, company structures will involve configuration of at least the Client, Organization, and Warehouse.

Based on our final company structure configuration, our upcoming document transaction will generate General Ledger (GL) journal entries in ADempiere accounting parts, which will also contain Client, Organization, and if applicable, Warehouse information.

By using these GL journal entries, you can create financial reports. GL journal entries aid in better...