While implementing an ERP system, it is important that you take time to define roles for your users and how they map to the functional job of the employee. The primary reason for including user access rights and groups in a chapter on human resources is that it can be very desirable from a business perspective to have human resources closely involved with both establishing job descriptions and the processes that employees will be working with each day.
When you first install OpenERP, the setup process makes certain assumptions about user groups and the various permissions each user has when they are assigned to that group. In Chapter 3, Exploring Customer Relationship Management in OpenERP, we created a sales manager named Mike Zeigler by assigning him to the manager group in sales. This manager group provides Mike with a different level of permissions as compared to a user who is placed in the user group in the sales...