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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

Sample apparel company structure


Sistematika Fashion Ltd is an apparel company that manufactures a variety of clothes. It produces mainly dresses, shirts, and jackets. The complexity to produce such types of clothes is different. It requires a different set of skills to manage and make these products. Hence, it has a different plant for each of these types of product.

Currently, Sistematika has three plants and each plant has one or two warehouses. In each warehouse, there is at least one location in which to put the raw materials and/or finished goods.

Based on the physical location approach, the following is a complete representation of the company's structure:

This figure tells us that the company has three facilities—Dress Facility, Shirt Facility, and Jacket Facility. The Dress Facility has two warehouses—1st Dress Warehouse and 2nd Dress Warehouse. The first warehouse internally contains two locations to put your stuff—Loc D1A, which means Dress facility, first warehouse and location...