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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

Chapter 2. Starting Your First Company

We have learned about the various modules that OpenERP has to offer and how you can install OpenERP on your own system. Now we will get into how you can use OpenERP to begin managing your business. We will start by looking at the overall business requirements and decide on the first set of modules we wish to implement. After understanding our basic objectives, we will create an OpenERP database and configure the required company information.

Next, we begin exploring the OpenERP interface for creating and viewing information. We will see just how easy OpenERP is to use by completing an entire sales order workflow. We will finish up the chapter by reviewing some of the more advanced sales order configuration options.

Topics that we cover in this chapter will include:

  • Adding a password-protected database to our installation

  • Installing and configuring the Sales Management module

  • Using interface features to view, edit, and find information

  • Entering a new customer...