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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

A real-world project example


Like in other chapters we will use a real-world example to demonstrate the functionality of OpenERP's Project Management application. In the silk screen industry, it can be common to have extremely large projects that can span across many types of apparel and print designs. For this example, we are going to create a project to manage creating an entire line of sports jerseys for an organization called Lil League.

When defining our project, it is important to look at the scope of our project and why it will be valuable to use the project manager to organize the various tasks involved. With our Lil League organization, we have multiple teams that can vary in logo design for the team, the number of players, the sizes of the apparel required, and the printing of different players' numbers and even players' names. There are often multiple deadlines to manage and a number of people that may need to approve various phases of the project as they are complete. Using the...