The ADempiere Solution
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).
Adempoiere ensures 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).
Inventory Management
Purchases
Human Resource Management
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.
With implementations being carried out on a global scale (from Germany to Ecuador), ADempiere is quickly becoming the premier ERP solution.
Supply Chain Management
SCM covers all material management activities including inventory receipts, shipments, and material moves within a client and its organisations and to suppliers and customers.
With its Warehouse model, ADempiere can tackle any type of product. 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!
Traditional IT systems
Traditional 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: 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. Information gaps exist (due to the lack of communication between some departments) and are only filled by derived information or expensive and inefficient bridges. Duplicates of data are formed, which need comparing and cross-checking. Management spends valuable time locating the errors and inconsistent data. 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 revenue as well as higher cost of management that could be eliminated through an implementation of ADempiere. Let us see how and why!
