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Working with OpenERP

By : Greg Moss
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Working with OpenERP

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

<p>OpenERP continues to gain momentum throughout the world in providing the best platform for open source ERP installations. This book covers all the essential modules and how to get the power of OpenERP to work for you.</p> <p>"Working with OpenERP" provides a real-world business solution approach to integrating OpenERP into your small or medium sized business. This book begins by walking you through how to install OpenERP on a Windows or Ubuntu server then takes you through all the essential modules you will need to get OpenERP up and running for your company.</p> <p>All through the book, "Working with OpenERP" provides real-world examples in sales, customer relationship management (CRM), purchasing, manufacturing, human resources, and financial accounting. After covering the basics, you will learn how to customize various methods to configure OpenERP for your business and even build your own custom modules.</p> <p>"Working with OpenERP" covers all the basics of installing and using OpenERP along with advanced real-world examples you will not find anywhere else.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Working with OpenERP
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing Silkworm – our real-world case study


To best understand how to work with OpenERP, we will build our exercises around a real-world case study. Silkworm is a screen printing, embroidery, and graphic design company. Using OpenERP's modular design, we will begin by implementing the Sales Order module to set up the selling of basic products. In this specific case we will be selling t-shirts. As we proceed through the book we will continue to expand the system by installing additional modules.

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When implementing OpenERP for your organization, you will also want to create a basic requirements document. This information is important for configuration of the company settings in OpenERP and should be considered essential documentation when implementing an ERP system.

Creating a new database in OpenERP

To create your company in OpenERP you must first create a database. As you add additional modules to OpenERP, the necessary tables and fields will be added to this database.

If you have just...