Part A ADempiere Overview
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1. jboss 541 sg doc JasperReports Wep App JasperReports JasperReportsTools base basis of ADempiere contains packages for database access AD interpretation and data models process handling printing interfaces workflows handling client GUI interface contains packages for translating the GUI metadata into swing windows and handling user interactions data no compilation code contains database seeds translation packages and accounting schemas db not in use anymore moved to base Has various templates and sql files and data erd doc documentation extend adempiere extention classes extention custom extention classes install install ADempiere setup tool for ADempiere interfaces not in use anymore moved to base JasperReports Report viewer contains base code for viewing the Jasper Reports JasperReportsTools jar packages used by JasperReports en JasperReportsWebA pps projects JasperReportsWebApps JasperReport application server contains javabean jboss jar packages needed to deploy ADempiere on jboss server launch launch ADempiere only for windows lib contains the customization jar package implementation dependant programming looks GUI visual presentation contains the plugable look and feel package migration ADempiere migration scripts database migration nbproject Netbeans files packages various too2. em NOE ette eene e EEE EA 2 27226 PFOGUDES o e tees 21 2 227 PrQductcdtegODV qo ad 2 22 23 Discount A eS 21 2 2 20 Discount breaks anal 21 ecce st me acute A 21 2 2 31 Payment terms see a a ox SG E R a E a als 21 2 292 SCHAUE ee oi 21 AS A O ende 21 2 2 34 Source Warehouse O ld 21 22533 Replenish s ossa cet tee ei RE Mu EI RR DR ate du ea NV da a CON 22 2 2 SO Replenish PE iras ile ius tisse beso epp be Pat peste ve Mu os aad RU ea 22 2 2 ASO CAMO er ie t ea e OR HIT Rn 22 VAS ES ER LEEREN UE 22 2 239 A Set Instanes au uni cud are 22 2D AO Related N ra 22 2 UN BONES aio o RD oae CA RIO 22 2 242 Related Productivpe d o i ER e dead RI 22 DAL ER 61617 erp ec 27 22 AI ETUR A A RE 22 2 245 Product C ate CORY se Goss ems dean ads Pee mori e 22 2 2 46 Producttype M eo eov aped o pe i UR ad n 22 DA TAMI GUE A estet ee ta TRE deu ek tuo dt tb ade 23 2 248 Attribute Set Instanee ue co ce Teac idt date tht eda tur EX Musae 23 2 2 40 Se OA 23 DIA DOS E bo ese ta 23 2251 Apribute etes tee euere 23 2 2 52 A
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4. ga dra le Doa ps ae e 30 SAdempiere ERP B sness SUME ai 32 Key PCAN IES ERN EE EET EE LEE E ERE EDU 32 Sell Complete ERP smera rune EIER AD 32 3 1 2 Supply Chain Management SEM ab 33 3 1 3 Customer Relationship Mangement 34 3 Performance Analysis iz 34 3 2 A strategic tool that will evolve with your 2 34 32 3 Current Deco mc ac 35 3 3 1 Manufacturing Management aaa 35 3 3 2 Global Tax Management a 35 32 3 Truman Resource Payroll ius ies isst ott bes pepe una te 35 4 T stallati ON na ta ere 36 Introduction With ERP systems there is a new aera of Free Software which goes beyond the functionality of more technical oriented Free Software like compilers the GNU Linux operating system or application server like Jboss The ADempiere ERP Business Suite called Adempiere in the later does provide the basis for SME and does offer an alternative to SAP Oracle or Navision One of the many definitions of ERP A software architecture that facilitates the flow of infor mation between all functions within a company such as manufacturing logistics finance and human resources and one definition of an ERP System is An ERP system is an informa tionsystem that implements business processes and rules for all main business departments inside an enterprise as well as between enterprises Tr
5. The OSI is actively involved in Open Source community building and education OSI Board members frequently travel the world to attend Open Source conferences and events meet with open source developers and users and to discuss with executives from the public and private sectors about how Open Source technologies licenses and models of development can provide economic and strategic advantages 5 http www opensource org about 2 Architecture and Concepts 2 1 Schema s explaining the application data structure 2 1 1 Client 2 1 2 User TRANSACTION ASSIGNMENT ION ACCESS 2 1 3 Role 2 1 4 Business Partner Group Accounting posts 2 1 5 Customer 2 1 6 Vendor 2 1 7 Employee Accounting posts 2 1 8 Price list 2 1 9 Discount Schema 2 1 11 Payment terms 2 1 12 Warehouse 2 1 13 Product definition 2 1 15 Attribute Set Instance 2 1 16 Product Inventory ACCOUNTING INFORMA Accounting posts 2 1 18 Workflow 2 1 20 Tax 2 1 21 Requisition 2 1 22 Requisition 2 2 Used terms 2 2 1 Client The Client is the highest level of an independent business entity Each Client will have one or more Organizations reporting to it Each Client defines the accounting parameters Accounting Schema Tree definition Non Monetary UOM s In most cases client will be the name of the company using ADempiere 2 2 2 Users Users can log int
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7. For example Sales Tax or Value Added Tax 2 2 66 Transactions the transactions that have been processed for this product 2 2 67 Revenue Recognition defines the intervals at which revenue will be recognized You can also base the revenue recognition on provided Service Levels 2 2 68 Revenue Recognition Plan is generated then invoicing a product with revenue recognition With Revenue Recognition the amount is posted to the Unrecognized revenue and over time or based on Service Level booked to Earned Revenue 2 2 69 Revenue Recognition Run Revenue Recognition Run History 2 2 70 Workflow defines Workflows in the system the access level for the Workflow and the Nodes or Steps within the Workflow 2 2 71 Access defines the Roles who have access to this Workflow 2 2 72 Workflow type The type of workflow determines how the workflow is started 2 2 73 Node defines each Node Activity or step in this Workflow 2 2 74 Process Parameter Only Set Customization Validate current old value 2 2 75 Parameter Parameter for the execution of the Workflow Node 2 2 76 Transition Next Nodes Tab defines the order or Nodes or Steps in a Workflow 2 2 77 Condition Optional restriction of transition of one node to the next 2 2 78 Table Column Link to the database column of the table 2 2 79 Action Actions can be Apps Report Process Document Action Document Action Email Email Recipient Email Template Set Variabl
8. company to obtain a complete view of customers Any information management might want to know about customers is available and can be checked by its staff Moreover ADempiere with its audit trail facility can help a company evaluate the effect of a promotional campaign as management will be able to check sales over any period of time 3 1 4 Performance Analysis ADempiere Performance Analysis tool covers the costing and accounting dimensions of the application and is transactional based It allows operational data to be collected analysed and centrally managed from a wide variety of angles As it combines the details of all transactions it is easy to retrieve and analyse reports according to the level of details needed per product product category by customer by customer group etc This feature will allow the management to focus on business processes such as planning and forecasting 3 2 A strategic tool that will evolve with your company ADempiere will always be the strategic tool that will evolve as your business needs change With its multifeature architecture it can cater to any company s needs Multi organization different organizational entities can share data or make sure that private data is not accessible by other entities Multi products services from any type of products items services or even resources according to the nature of the business Multi Currency ability to make any transaction in foreign currencies Mul
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10. to be learned to replace intra enterprise trust with inter enterprise trust This isa business issue 1 2 Free Software The Free Software project was initiated by Richard M Stallman in 1984 and was called the GNU GNU s not Unix project The idea behind Free Software is a freely available unix like operating system as a basis for exchanging information and knowledge This idea was born when computer manufacturers did not support anymore open but proprietary software Proprietary software delimits the exchange of information and impeded faster results in research work as Stallman was accustomed to at the MIT Free Software is based on the so called four freedoms e The freedom to run the program for any purpose freedom 0 e The freedom to study how the program works and adapt it to your needs freedom 1 Access to the source code is a precondition for this e The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor freedom 2 e The freedom to improve the program and release your improvements to the public so that the whole community benefits freedom 3 Access to the source code is a precondition for this For example GNU Linux and the ADempiere ERP Business Suite are Free Software based on GNU GPL Version 2 4 http www gnu org philosophy free sw html 1 3 Open Source The term Open Source was created in 1998 by the Open Source Initiative OSI and can be seen as a marketing programm for Free Software
11. ADempiere User Manual Part A ADempiere Overview Copyright This document is Copyright O 2008 by its contributors as listed in the section titled Authors You can distribute it and or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License version 2 or later http www gnu org licenses gpl html or the Creative Commons Attribution License version 3 0 http creativecommons org licenses by 3 0 or later All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners Authors Bepi Esposito Vingiano Heinz G nter Siebert Oscar Pelgrim Feedback Maintainer of Part A Heinz G nter Siebert oscar Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to authorseadempiere org Publication date and software version First time published June 27 2008 Based on Adempiere 350a Revision 01 June 4 2008 Adempiere 3 5 1a Rev 5331 Table of Content HO NA a Cds MM 6 dd Bauer e inu dod 6 1 1 1 Material Resource Planning er AS 6 1 1 2 Manufacturing Resource Planning I 0 22 2 1 000000 000000004 6 1 1 3 Manufacturing Resource Planning II MRP IL 7 1 1 4 Enterprise Resource Planning ERP hen nein esse 7 1 1 5 Advanced Production Schedule APS seas ee opem a Ta bu e eR 7 1 2 Bree SS OTC W ARG ac e DRYER cH aa Obr da ea POE RON e Hare ER
12. Supervisor Supervisor for this user organization used for escalation and approval 2 2 13 Substitute A user who can act for this user 2 2 14 Position Job position 2 2 15 Organization Assignment Assign Users to Organizations 2 2 16 Organization Access Client and organizations the user has access to Entries here are ignored if in the Role User Org Access is not selected or the role has access to all roles 2 2 17 Pricelist Price lists determine currency and tax treatment Price list versions allow to maintain parallel lists for different date ranges The most current pricelist version is used based on the document date All pricelists have three prices List Standard and Limit 2 2 18 Dunning Dunning is the process of methodically communicating with customers to insure the collection of accounts receivable 2 2 19 Discount Schema Trade discount schema calculates the trade discount percentage 2 2 20 Purchase Pricelist Pricelist used for purchase in own organisations 2 2 21 PO Discount Schema Discount Schema for Purchase Order 2 2 22 Pricelistversion Price lists are automatically created based on Product Purchasing Information and the Vendor Category Discount 2 2 23 Pricelistschema Price List schema defines calculation rules for price lists 2 2 24 Pricelistschemaline Trade Discount Price List Lines Pricelists are created based on Product Purchase and Category Discounts The parameters listed allow to copy and calculate pric
13. aditional IT systems are mostly built around an accounting package with different software to cater to the seemingly unrelated departments needs But how often do these different underlying systems lead to isolated pockets of data within the organisation The answer unfortunately is too often Information is usually held in the large amount of data that the organizations already have such as data ranging from supply chain level to customer facing departments e g sales data stock information customer data market information etc Within this explosion of data lie the answers that management needs to define its strategy and manage the business properly Some examples of issues encountered in the traditional IT systems are as follows e Only a compartmental view of the activities of the business are available Too much time is spent piecing the varying departmental information together rather than using the information itself e Information gaps exist due to the lack of communication between some departments and are only filled by derived information or expensive and inefficient bridges e Duplicates of data are formed which need comparing and cross checking Management spends valuable time locating the errors and inconsistent data e Difficulty scaling with a growing company As the company grows the old IT system is replaced with a different system and inherits the same flaws Naturally all this results in many inefficiencies loss of reve
14. e Table Column User Choise Table Column User Form Form User Window Window 2 2 80 Calendar defines each calendar that will be used by an Organization 2 2 81 Year define each year for the specified calendar 2 2 82 Non Business Day defines those days to exclude when calculating the due date for given payment terms 2 2 83 Period defines a Period No Name and Start Date for each Calendar Year Each period begins on the defined Start Date and ends one day prior to the next period s Start Date 2 2 84 Period Control displays the status of a Period Never Opened Opened Closed 2 2 85 Tax Category facilitates reacting changing tax rates 2 2 86 Charge defines the unique charges that may be associated with a document 2 2 87 Tax Rate defines the different taxes used for each tax category 2 2 88 Parent Tax indicates a tax that is a reference for multiple taxes This allows you to charge multiple taxes on a document by entering the Parent Tax 2 2 89 Tax ZIP For local tax you may have to define a list of ranges of postal codes or ZIPs 2 2 90 Requisition Material Requisition can be created automatically via Replenishment You create generate optionally consolidated Purchase Orders 2 2 91 Requisition line Material Requisition Line 2 2 92 Document type defines any document to be used in the system Each document type provides the basis for processing of each document and controls the printed name and docume
15. elists 2 2 25 Productprice prices for a product based on the selected price list 2 2 26 Product defines all products used by an organization These products include those sold to customers used in the manufacture of products sold to customers and products purchased by an organization 2 2 27 Productcategory allows you to define different groups of products These groups can be used in generating Price Lists defining margins and for easily assigning different accounting parameters for products 2 2 28 Discount type Type of procedure used to calculate the trade discount percentage 2 2 29 Discount break Trade discount based on breaks steps 2 2 30 Level timing and frequency of the dunning notices 2 2 31 Payment terms defines the different payment terms that you offer your customers and that are offered to you by your vendors Each invoice must contain a Payment Term 2 2 32 Schedule Payment Schedule 2 2 33 Warehouse defines each Warehouse any Locators for that Warehouse and the Accounting parameters to be used for inventory in that Warehouse 2 2 34 Source Warehouse Optional Warehouse to replenish from 2 2 35 Replenish defines the type of replenishment quantities This is used for automated ordering If you select a custom replenishment type you need to create a class implementing org compiere util ReplenishInterface and set that on warehouse level 2 2 36 Replenish type Method for reordering a product 2 2 37 Locator defi
16. er client org name and connection CurrentDate the print date CurrentDateTime the print time 2 3 AD 2 4 Architecture Client Web Browser AD Swing GUI Engine A A A Persistent Object Model Package dbPort Package Server JBoss Wepstore Wey Persistent Object Server Ban Model Package dbPort Package Database Oracle PostgreSQL Y Client is devided in 2 implementations Web Brower and Swing GUI The Web Browser can follow 2 paths to manage data and business processes 1 Webstore PO Model Package dbPort Package 2 Web Package Server Bean dbPort Package Both solutions are called depending the function that is called and are running on server side in a JBoss application server instance The GUI client can follow 3 paths to manage data and business processes 1 Web Package Server Bean dbPort Package 2 Server Bean dbPort Package 3 PO Model Package dbPort Package Solution 1 runs on the server side in JBoss application server instance Solution 2 and 3 run on the client side and make no use of the application server 2 5 Project structure tools looks en Tools Look Base Chent webCM serverRoot serverApps extend N EN install webstore N N N
17. ls packed in zip files posterita ADempiere web client serverApps Web application contains ADempiere servlets serverRoot Server application contains JavaBean and Server side process routines sqlj sql java routines tools various general tools utils Command line scripts for setting up ADempiere utils dev development command line scripts Database backup webCM webStore 3 Adempiere ERP Business Suite ADempiere is the strategic tool aiming to help companies gain a competitive edge within the growing economy e As opposed to traditional ERP software ADempiere is designed around business processes and transactions rather than on the traditional accounting and departmental architecture ADempiere is an open source Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and Customer Relations Management CRM software that provides a seamless 360 degree view of your company its customers and vendors ADempiere puts the power of timely and consistent communications within reach of small to medium sized businesses by offering superior ERP software that is affordable adaptable and scalable ensuring that companies always have exactly the solution they need Beyond Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and Customer Relations Management CRM Adempiere also integrates Supply Chain Management SCM and On line Analysis Processing OLAP 3 1 Key Features 3 1 1 Complete ERP e AnERP is an information system that integrates every related a
18. nes any Locators physical places 2 2 38 Storage Detail Storage Information 2 2 39 Attribute Set Instance Set of attributes values 2 2 40 Related Related Product e g for promotions 2 2 41 BOM defines those products that are generated from other products A Bill of Material BOM is one or more Products or BOMs 2 2 42 Related Producttype Product type of Related product 2 2 43 UOM Unit of Measure defines a unique non monetary Unit of Measure 2 2 44 Conversion defines the rates for converting a Unit of Measure The system provides some automatic conversions between units of measures 2 2 45 Product Category allows you to define different groups of products These groups can be used in generating Price Lists defining margins and for easily assigning different accounting parameters for products 2 2 46 Producttype type of product also determines accounting consequences 2 2 47 Attribute Set define Product Attribute Sets to add additional attributes and values to the product You need to define a Attribute Set if you want to enable Serial and Lot Number tracking 2 2 48 Attribute Set Instance Attribute values for Attribute Set 2 2 49 Attribute Use Attributes Used for the Product Attribute Set 2 2 50 Attribute Product Attribute like Color Size etc If it is an Instance Attribute all products have the same value 2 2 51 Attribute Value Individual value of a product attribute 2 2 52 Attribute Value Type The Attribute Val
19. nt sequence used 2 2 93 Purchase Order defines a purchase order for an organization When a Purchase Order has been entered you can generate a Shipment Document or Invoice from this Purchase Order 2 2 94 GL Category General Ledger Categorie defines optional identifiers for a document or journal Each Category may be used on a document manual journal or import 2 2 95 Category type indicates the source of the journal for this category Journals can be generated from a document entered manually or imported 2 2 96 Document Basetype identifies the base or starting point for a document Multiple document types may share a single document base type 2 2 97 Document Sequence defines how document numbers will be sequenced Change the way document numbers are generated You may add a prefix or a suffix or change the current number 2 2 98 Print Format determines how data is rendered for print 2 2 99 Display Order Display Order of the Print Format Items 2 2 100 Sort Order Sort Order of the Print Format Items 2 2 101 Format Item Item in the print format maintaining layout information The following additional variables are available when printing Page the current page number PageCount the total number of pages MultiPageInfo Page x of y only printed if more than one page CopyInfo if it is a copy of the document Duplicate is printed ReportName name of the report Header Full Header with us
20. nue as well as higher cost of management that could be eliminated through an implementation of ADempiere 1 1 ERP History 1 1 1 Material Resource Planning MRP The original MRP Concept has been developed in the 50 60 This concept is used at plant level This was possible because the capacity of computers has increased to handle the magnitude of data to be processed Times have changed from consumption oriented to demand oriented requirements planning 1 1 2 Manufacturing Resource Planning MRP I In the 70 in addition to MRP the planning of production programs was included as an enhance ment and called MRP I The planning methods does include magnitude as well as time planning Blanchard 2 Kurbel P 241 Mauth 3 http www adempiere com wiki images 3 34 Why should a company implement ADempiere v2 pdf Chapter 1 Copyright Posterita licence GPL but both were strictly separated They were part of the so called successive planning method 1 1 3 Manufacturing Resource Planning Il MRP II With MRP II strategic information have been added to the planning process Strategic information are sales and development forecast information to calculate the required Material and plan the required times to fullfil a customer s order which is the base for the primary demand After having determiend the primary demand the next planning step is to determine the necessity to order additional material which is not on stock but
21. o the system and have access to functionality via one or more roles A user can also be a business partner contact 2 2 3 Role The User Roles Tab define the Roles each user may have The Roles will determine what windows tasks processes and workflows that a User has access to 2 2 4 Organization An Organization is often a legal entity or sub unit for which documents and transactions are processed Normally physical locations like office company branche shops factory location 2 2 5 Organization type Organization Type allows you to categorize your organizations for reporting purposes 2 2 6 Business Partner The Business Partner is any party with whom you transact This includes customers vendors and employees have Back Account Location Contact Withholdiing 2 2 7 Business Partner Group The Business Partner Group window allows you to define the accounting parameters at a group level If you define the accounting parameters for a group any Business Partner entered using this group will have these accounting parameters automatically populated You can then make any modifications necessary at the Business Partner level 2 2 8 Business Relation Business Partner Relation allow to maintain Third Party Relationship rules who receives invoices for shipments or pays for invoices 2 2 9 Customer Business partner is customer 2 2 10 Vendor Business partner is vendor 2 2 11 Employee Business partner is employee 2 2 12
22. php group id 176962 mask Java SDK 4 Setup ADempiere Step 4 a Run setup from ADEMPIERE HOME D 0 Apps Server Database ERES 5 Create ADempiere DB Step 5 RUN Importdempiere Run import from ADEMPIERE HOME utils Apps Server 6 Complete Server Setup RUN Server Step 6 Es Ea Run Server from ADEMPIERE HOME utils Step 7 Run client RUN Adempiere xx from ADEMPIERE HOME For Windows XP the following example is a good starting point on a step by step basis http www adempiere com wiki index php Adempiere Install WinX
23. pplication for the entire enterprise It integrates all departments and functions across the company onto a single computer system that can serve every single one of the different departments particular needs This system thus ensures consistency and validity of data This centralised architecture also ensures that entire user interface is consistent Business processes drive ADempiere s design In today s world people often cover entire business processes or even multiple related processes rather than work inside of a single department For example the supply chain management module will only make sense when information is simultaneously retrieved and consolidated across many different departments and business processes such as accounts payables purchase order sales order inventory management and CRM 6 http www adempiere com wiki images 3 34 Why should a company implement ADempiere v2 pdf Chapter 2 until chapter 2 2 Copyright Posterita licence GPL Enterprise Resource Planning Supply Chain Adempiere Management m am lt cama Production Customer Relationship Management Performance Analysis Abbildung 1 ERP Overview 3 1 2 Supply Chain Management SCM e SCM covers all material management activities including inventory receipts shipments and material moves within a client and its organisations and to suppliers and customers e With its Warehouse model ADempiere can tackle any type of prod
24. required for the primary demand If all demands are determined the next step will be initiated This step consists of the time planning to determine the production time and the required resources All these information will be the base for initiating the production process in order to deliver the ordered product just in time with no or minimal waste of resources and costs 1 1 4 Enterprise Resource Planning ERP With the introduction of ERP the production focus was extended to consider customer and market orientation to be used in the complete planning and production process from procurement to sales with respect to consider all enterprise resources 1 1 5 Advanced Production Schedule APS All improvements which have been made from MRP to ERP have made a lot of progress With the globalization process and just in time production it is getting more and more important to consider inter enterprise communication for suplly chain management It is important to udnerstand that SCM is not a 1 1 relationship but in the worst case a n m relationship which have to taken into account for so called ERP Systems The service orientation is only one aspect to interconnect loosly coupled enterprise systems Interface have to be provided which does allow to take vendor stock information into account when setting up own production schedules Hiwever this kind of communication will required trust between business partners This has to be learned It has
25. ti Accounting and Multi Costing can maintain in parallel different accounting schemas as well as various costing methods e Multi Language interface screens and reports in many languages e Multi Tax ADempiere tax matrix can handle any tax system 3 3 Current Developments At the time of writing this document is based on ADempiere Version 3 5 1a Rev 5331 3 3 1 Manufacturing Management For further study see Chapter 5 in this document 3 3 2 Global Tax Management Needs some time for investigation 3 3 3 Human Resource amp Payroll Needs some time for investigation 4 Installation There are many installation tutorials and HOWTOs which will be found on the following URL http www adempiere com wiki index php ADempiere Installin A good overview of the installation steps is given by the following picture 1 Install Java Step 1 http java sun com javase downloads index jdk5 jsp din OracleXE http www oracle com technology products database xe index html 2 Install Database PostgreSQL http www postgresql org download E a Ifyou plan to install postgreSQL the appropriate PLJAVA SS version pljava and postgresql has to be installed and setup correctly Information are updated on a regulary basis and can be found here http www adempiere com wiki index php PLJAVA 3 Download ADempiere unzip tar t ER Apps DIS e 1 Server Adempiere https sourceforge net project showfiles
26. ttribute Vale Type irent eek 23 22 SJA tribute Searchin SAS EA AA AS E 23 252 34 Exclude fable d toL Eo Ere 23 22 55 Shipment RECEIPES cda ee Rn con tal aat CU e E QUU O CR qus oM du 23 22 56 MOVEMENT s raia det E EE EEG e E EA ORE as EG EYE eis 23 AS Y da re MER SE PER e NOS A o 23 22 99 Freight ale OU So a e Tut 23 252 29 Replenish Dpe anerkennen 23 22 60 Purchasing a2 ner een 24 2 201 Mail Template starke 24 RA A a AN 24 A A O gia 24 22264 O een 24 2205 Cate DEus cas atten ora sn A 24 2 00 APSACHONS doo ars be e ToS No Ries SOU 24 2 2 07 Revenne RECO ONION s serrer st Dd Ripe eor a d dia 24 22 08 Revenue Recoenition Plan ois ertet eto qe aei bad stable 24 2 2 69 Revenue Recognition ute o RE A 24 2 2 Workflow does PP bts o oen ete 24 22 IL ACCESS C 24 2 2 12 Workflow type MT PEN RT E lea E 25 22 1 INDUS o Desde E UAM EMIL 23 22 PROCESS eodd a ee es a eL o SR 25 22 75 E A E e 25 2 2 16 KON TS 25 A Ze d ect dd da O as Saha ees 25 2 2 18 Table Colmi N
27. uct This is possible thanks to a well thought out matrix of product attributes set Different units of measures product categories multiple price list brands tax category revenue recognition as well as many other fields are supported so that any product can be configured As shown in the next figure Adempiere generates and manages all the required type of documents needed to track every detail related to material movements dates time quantity warehouse transfer shipment replenishment level reserved stock and so on Linked to that is an intelligent valuation process that can display your stock valuation according to different costing methods such as standard costing average costing and actual costing Last PO FIFO LIFO This implies that the management can at any time access real actual stock figures in quantity as well as in value Abbildung 2 Supply Chain 3 1 3 Customer Relationship Mangement CRM CRM on the other hand is a business strategy built around the concept of being customer centric The main goal is to optimise revenue through improved customer satisfaction via improved interactions at each customer touch point It is not an independent module but the logical view of all customer and prospect related activities ADempiere CRM solution builds value for your business by opening up vital communication channels and creating a common client focused knowledge base to better serve your clients ADempiere allows a
28. ue type deternines the data validation type 2 2 53 Attribute Search Attributes are specific to a Product Attribute Set e g Size for T Shirts S M L If you have multiple attributes and want to search under a common attribute you define a search attribute 2 2 54 Exclude table Create a record if you want to exclude the ability to enter Product Attribute Set information 2 2 55 Shipment Receipts Material Shipment and Receipt Lines 2 2 56 Movement Material Movement Lines 2 2 57 Invoice AR Invoice Lines 2 2 58 Freight Category used to calculate the Freight for the Shipper selected 2 2 59 Replenish type indicates if this product will be manually re ordered ordered when the quantity is below the minimum quantity or ordered when it is below the maximum quantity 2 2 60 Purchasing define the pricing and rules pack quantity UPC minimum order quantity for each product 2 2 61 Mail Template Mail templates can contain variables of the user business partner or a general object The priority of parsing is User Contact Business Partner and then the underlying business object like Request Dunning Workflow object 2 2 62 User Mail Mail sent to the user 2 2 63 Download Define downloads for a product If the product is an asset the user can download the data 2 2 64 Price displays the List Standard and Limit prices for each price list a product is contained in 2 2 65 Tax Category provides a method of grouping similar taxes
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