Re: gEDA-user: ERP Systems

["Jeff VR" <jffvnrkl@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm very interested to see how your evaluation turns out.  I watched some of the demos of TinyERP and it looks like it will meet my needs.  I'm not sure I need as much material management as your looking for.  I'm mainly looking for something to track my limited inventory of parts so I can run shortage lists, bill of materials, part number management (dist. P/N, mfg P/n, desc, etc) before building boards.

Just blue skying here but it would be pretty sweet to synchronize part numbers, desc, etc with the gEDA library and BOM output with an ERP format.  Even importing and exporting BOM's and parts would be slick.

Jeff VR

On 3/5/07, Seb James <seb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 20:56 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote:
> 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....

I wrote a framework for Business Process Software, called
phpOrganisation. One of the things I do with this is accounting for my
own business, but it has potential as a base to build this sort of
system. It currently looks like an accounting system, but it's really "a
web application with a good contacts database system which can be a
springboard for any business process application".

Just thought you might be interested in having a look at the project. It
has been quiet for the last year - it would be great to re-vitalise it.

Seb James
--
http://www.phporg.net    phpOrganisation
http://www.esfnet.co.uk  Embedded Software Foundry



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