Compiere 3电子书

Compiere 3

Table of Contents

Compiere 3

Credits

About the author

About the reviewer

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Evaluating the Compiere System

When do you look at Compiere

Compiere's core ERP functionality

Compiere system administration

Sales cycle to accounts receivable

Purchasing cycle to accounts payable

Business partner management

Financial Accounting Management

Cash management

Customer Relationship Management

Inventory and material management

Light Production

Integrated advanced ERP functionality

Critical ERP decision factors

Budget

Up-front functional design and data relationships

Static out-of-the-box versus dynamic flexible ERP

Internal learning curve and time availability

Enterprise readiness

Technology

Personal career aspirations

Brand Loyalty

Do you evaluate Compiere differently because it is open source?

It must meet your functional needs

It must offer the Assurance Support Levels to suit your needs

Community-supported edition

Paid-for enterprise editions

It must provide an open source advantage

Compiere editions

Getting more information

Getting Compiere

Summary

2. The Initial Compiere Setup

Compiere Terminology

Compiere setup overview

Starting and stopping the Application Server

Launching Compiere and logging in

Desktop launch

Web launch

The Compiere menu and windows

The Compiere menu

Compiere transaction window

Initial set-up process

Defining the account elements (Chart of Accounts) import

Setting up a tenant

Defining the calendar, year, and periods

Setting up your organizations

Setting up your warehouses and locators

Set up and verify your account element tree

Setting up and verify your accounting schema rules

Accounting Schema overview

Account schema elements (Information Dimensions) tab

General Ledger tab

Defaults tab

Account Combinations and aliases

Understanding Unit of Measures (UOM) and conversions

Document sequences

Creating a user

Set up roles

Creating a role

Summary

3. Customers and the Sales Process

The Sales Overview

Defining your business partners

Proxy business partners

Linked organization business partners

Credit management

Entering leads and converting to business partners

Sales order to invoice processing

Sales order delivery rules

Sales order invoicing rules

Manually generating invoices from orders

Batch generation of invoices

Document status and actions

Reporting on open orders

Finding sales order documents

Zoom on field names

Order info view

Order and invoicing reports

User list reporting with or without querying

Return Material Authorization (RMA)

RMA category

Return policies

Customer RMA (Return Material Authorizations)

Return credit memo

Distribution runs

Sales processing accounting consequences

Default accounts

Receivables accounts

Revenue accounting

Cost of sales accounting

Tax accounting

Summary of the accounts posting

Sales regions

Commissions

Summary

4. Product and Material Management

The product definition

Describing a product

Setting up a Product

Price Lists

Pricing logic flow

Setting Up a Price List and version

Illustrating a price list increase

Discount Breaks

Pricing Decimal Precisions

Managing Products as Services

Material Management

Warehouse Overview

Adjusting Product Quantities

Physical Inventory Entry

Internal Use Inventory

Moving Inventory

Material Shipments to Customers

Material Receipts from Vendors

Internal Inventory Move

Product Replenishment

Product Costing and Accounting

Typical Accounting of product warehouse transactions

Basic Product Reports Available

Product Info Window

Summary

5. Procurement Management

The Procurement flow

Requisition documents

The Purchase Order

Capturing the Purchase Order

Material Receipt

Capturing the Material Receipt

Accounts Payable (AP) invoice

Capturing the AP invoice

Invoices for expense items (charges)

Matching the Purchase Order, Receipt, and Invoice

Manually matching lines

Vendor payments

Batch processing

Manual selection of invoices for payment

Returns to vendors

Compiere accounting for Procurement

Procurement reports

Summary

6. Compiere Financial Management

Accounting terminology in Compiere

Understanding the accounting entry

Accounting setup flow

Calendar year and period

Account elements

Accounting schema and information dimensions

General Ledger (GL) document types

Rules in processing accounting documents

Accounting info view

Open item management

Payment selection—Paying vendors

Accounts Receivable and Payable Ledger Reconciliation

Cash management and banking reconciliation

The Bank in transit account reconciliation

Posting General Ledger journals (GL journals)

Unposted documents

Financial reporting

Financial reporting hierarchy

Running the financial report

Other available financial reports

Summary

7. Advanced Aspects

The Compiere Application Dictionary (AD)

Table and columns

System elements

Validation rules

Reference

Windows, Tabs, and Fields

Forms

Info windows

Report Views

Reports and processes

Setting up a Compiere menu item

Adding a new field to a window and database

Final step in column creation—Create / Synchronize with the database

Adding our custom field to the Order window

Setting up a basic approval workflow

Illustrative workflow example

Defining a custom node in a workflow

Testing the workflow

Summary

8. Project Planning for Go-Live and Beyond

Managing people (and the project) for success

Finish with the people you start with

The people you start with are not necessary the people you end-up with

Project communication and follow up

Project documentation control

Technical and infrastructure go-live

Hardware and environment for development and testing

Hardware and environment for production

Hosted versus on-premise installation

Stress testing and performance tuning

Network and security environment

Backup-strategy

The go-live milestone

The technical go-Live

The functional go-live

A Compiere standard implementation project plan

The Compiere pre-implementation project plan

The implementation project plan

The go-live milestone project plan

Post implementation

Finishing off the project and closure

Change management of production environments

Supplier Service Level Agreement (SLA) management

Keeping up-to-date: Compiere migration

What is migration?

How does migration work?

Application Dictionary (AD) changes

Keeping AD changes after the migrate

Planning for the migration

Summary

Index