gEDA-user: ERP Systems

[Bob Paddock <bob.paddock@xxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of people had asked what Open Source ERP Systems 
where around.  http://freshmeat.net list 48 of them.
SourceForge has many others.

I had played the most with http://www.compiere.org/ but found it
to be week in the area that I was most interested in, material management.

Linux support for Compiere came from the Fyracle project, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyracle , based on the
FireBird database, however, from the Fyracle news server:

"As most of you probably noticed, Compiere Inc. became ever more reluctant to accept input from its community.
 A number of active Compiere users have started Adempiere,
 with the intent to create a true community around the code base."

http://www.adempiere.com/  "Source Developers that contribute improvements of Compiere, 
CRM, Shopfloor, POS, Helpdesk, Financials Accounting, Supply Chain, Knowledge 
and Business apps in an open and unabated fashion. "

Most of the ERP systems do the easy stuff like Accounting, or the visible
stuff line "Web front ends", like that is a big deal these days.

What I'm look for is "The supply chain approach models stochastic events influencing
a manufacturing organization's shipment and inventory performance in the same way
that a mechanical engineer models tolerance buildup in a new product design.
The objectives are to minimize on-hand inventory and optimize supplier response times."

With the gory math to support that here:
http://www.unusualresearch.com/supplychain/supplychain.htm

In a simplified form something that has some clue of shop floor scheduling,
and inventory management.  Right now I'm looking at http://tinyerp.org/ but
still have several more to look at.  If I every decide on one, I'll let the list know.
If you know of any that don't show up on Freshmeat or SourceForge let me know,
please.  In the end maybe I'll just write my own in MUMPS....


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