Managing manufacturing involving assembling of parts to create a finished product

As part of this article, I will be explaining how the business can make use of Adempiere to manage their common need during the manufacturing process. For the sake of simplicity, I have considered a manufacturing process involving assembling of parts to create a finished product. I have tried to keep things very simple to ensure that you get the first level idea about Adempiere’s capability to meet your manufacturing process automation need.

Managing Customer Return in Adempiere

After reading this blog you will be able to understand the common business need related to customerreturn. This article talks about a specific case (where business accepts material returned by customer and in lieu of that they issue credit notes to the customer) of customer return using Adempiere.

Managing Vendor Return in Adempiere

After reading this blog you will be able to understand the common business need related to vendor return. This article talks about a specific case (where business returns material to vendor and vendor gives credit notes to business) of vendor return using Adempiere.

Managing Workflow in Adempiere

As part of this article I have provided overall Workflow management in Adempiere. The workflow engine in Adempiere is one of the most powerful and important functionality that almost every business need. And, interestingly it doesn’t expect you to be technical expert to be able to define workflow for your business. This article also talks about some of the common business need and how these needs have been handled in Adempiere.

Developing a General Workflow in Adempiere

This article demonstrate the simplicity of Adempiere to enable you to design different business information flow in the easiest possible ways. The flow of information enables people to visualize how the overall system works. In addition, clicking on different nodes enables you to perform specific activity, which in a way enables end user to learn ERP system quickly.

Using SMS Global (Australia) to send SMS from Adempiere based solution

With increasing demand for accessing information on the mobile phone, one of our customers wanted to use Email-2-SMS service of SMS Global for receiving SMS. As part of this article, we are giving a quick overview of how you can achieve integration between SMS Global and Adempiere to meet such need.

Managing Expense Claim and Reimbursement in Adempiere

This article will enable you to understand how expense recording, expense reimbursement and expense claim from your customer/vendor can be managed using Adempiere. Of course there are few things which you need to setup as part of the implementation effort to be able to use it more effectively. But those are minor things as compared to what Adempiere provides off-the-shelf.

Managing Material Receipt in Adempiere

While it is pretty much standard to order items through purchase order and receive material through material receipt process, the off-the-shelf Adempiere solution looks a bit tricky for the beginners from the perspective of receiving the material and putting the checked / verified material into the inventory. As part of this article we intend to document the overall business expectation, how Adempiere meets those expectations. This article primarily covers material receipt for purchase order or direct purchase. There are few other processes, which lead to material receipt in a warehouse. Some of such processes are material return from the customer and the transfer from one warehouse into other warehouse. They are not included in the scope of this article.

Financial Reporting in Adempiere

While Adempiere comes up with powerful way of managing various financial reports, understanding and modifying these reports become tricky at times. Since business may need to add chart of accounts at run time, it becomes imperative for them to be able to include such accounts in financial reports. The purpose of this article is to enable business to be able to manage their financial reports more effectively.

Load Balancing in Adempiere

With increasing demand for powerful web application and near zero tolerance for downtime, the need for fail over and load balancing has become kind of implicit. This article gives you an overview of how to implement load balancing for Adempiere or any application built on the Adempiere framework. It goes on talks about how to configure different nodes ( application instances) for a single load balancer which will distribute the load ( traffic ) among the nodes and how to configure the load balancer.