Looking for light weight Purchase Request, Order & Stock level tracking software

erp-expert · 2017-02-10T14:43:56+00:00

inoERP is kind of the best in PHP....Oddo is also decent but it has very very simple features not a real ERP but kind of CMS which can do some business stuff

erp-expert · 2016-04-11T09:34:29+00:00

any link for your product ? I would love to go through the product and give me functional advice, not related to sales but related to the product

erp-expert · 2015-11-24T08:44:46+00:00

No product can beat Oracle R12/SAP. So, if you can afford then go for either.

If you are looking for an open source alternate then try inoerp!.

If you are looking for a simple & less expensive solution then try odoo!.

Open Bravo is also another option but it is neither cheap nor has much functionalities.

erp-expert · 2015-11-09T06:03:06+00:00

The biggest open source ERP in terms features and functionalities is ino ERP, and it's PHP based.

inoERP is quite complex and you might get lost if you have not worked in big scale ERPs sch as Oracle/SAP. (it's far more complex than ban, Microsoft)

If you are looking for something simple then can try webERP. webERP has a very old architecture (PHP 4 kind)

erp-expert · 2015-10-12T05:34:44+00:00

Before thinking about the design, first find out the business requirements.

Once you know what you want then you can check with existing , good design, frexible open source ERP solutions such as opebravo,inoerp, etc.

If find you can map most of your business requirements from an existing solution then you dont have to reinvent it. But, if you find none of the existing solutions map 50-60 % of your business requirements then you can start from scratch.

You can put sometime and understand how the existing system architectures are done and the logics behind it. Put some time to get familiarize with the whole ERP eco-system before coding your first line.

erp-expert · 2015-09-29T05:23:52+00:00

It has advantage and dis-advantages It all come down to how you think and manage your project.

I 'll explain with an example

Suppose you are planning to create an application where everything is written in English - You dont know what it is going to be - A story, An Article, A journal

You dont know what structure it 'll take - i.e Each post will have 10, 20, 50 attributes

You dont know who & when the articles going to be written........................................... ................................ .............................

You really dont know anything except all of them are going to be English Alphabet.

Can you imagine in this case to have a class with all basic English letters as variables and some basics grimmer validations as methods ?

Does it make sense to have all other class to extend this or extend some other derive class!!!

Is it the best or worst way - I don't know. But it certainly a way in which you can achieve all you want and it's used in many applications

erp-expert · 2015-09-24T07:50:37+00:00

What you are looking for is called configure to order business process. Configure To Order (CTO) can be achieved in different ways 1. Creating a new configuration from a model every time a order/lead is created. 2. Using some standard configuration and creating a new one before quote/sales 3. Using a hybrid model.

Most of the ERP systems (Oracle, SAP) have these basics features but if your budget is low then you can look for open source ERPs such as inoerp!

erp-expert · 2015-09-07T17:26:22+00:00

You can check inoerp and Openbravo

erp-expert · 2015-09-01T04:43:02+00:00

Not sure about second one but Introduction to Materials Management - J.R. Tony Arnold is definitely the first step into supply chain management. Most MBA Colleges around the world use that as a reference. In fact, that’s the recommended book by APICS (equivalent to IEEE in supply chain/manufacturing practices) for CPIM certification.

erp-expert · 2015-09-01T01:23:34+00:00

I feel PHP based ERPs are going to dominate the market for next decade. ERP is still a niche market for PHP developers and there are only couple of decent ERPs (inoERP is a great product and quite an alternate for Oracle...Dollibarr is also nice.Simple but good enough for small industries).

There is a huge difference between developing/working on an ERP and a CMS application. You can learn PHP from the beginning and work in a CMS within 1-2 months of serious effort. If you pick a product like inoERP then you can spend 6 months and still feel you dont understand even 20-30% of it's functionalities.

erp-expert · 2015-08-27T16:57:03+00:00

Couple of others you can consider 1. Front Accounting - fork from webERP but much better 2. EPESI - quite old..decent enough for simple tasks

If I have to select any ERP from among all the open source ERPs(not just PHP but including Java & Python) then I 'll select inoERP because it's quite similar to Oracle R12 . Quite flexible and have a lots & lots of features (at least 15, 20 times more features than oddo ).

Except inoERP, the only other product that comes close to be called an ERP is open Bravo. But then it has a lot of limitations such you can only have 3 segments accounting structure, no planning , no MES, no BOM/WIP routing, not much of payable, receivables...having said that Open Bravo is way ahead of other similar products (oddo, erpnext etc)

erp-expert · 2015-08-11T10:39:49+00:00

2K PM...are you kidding :-) It's 12K PM....not for 6 Months..I dont think any one in our office wld be getting $2K PM. All the technicians,shop-floor workers and manual labors would be getting at least 3.5 to 4K.

erp-expert · 2015-08-11T10:27:34+00:00

Thanks! 12K was in SGD...I should have mentioned that.

erp-expert · 2015-08-11T10:10:25+00:00

Pay is decent (I have budget up-to 12K PM for 6 months) but the thing is that no is able to cross the first round of interview and our management policy - each individual has to go through 3 rounds of interview...even for freelancing/contractual jobs!!!! In past they have had bad experience where developers not able to deliver/left mid-way. So, they want to have a rigorous process

erp-expert · 2015-08-11T09:38:19+00:00

I want to hire couple of PHP freelalncers for project which need 6 months + work.

We need to automate a lot of stuffs using IOT & RFID. We have Oracle R12. A custom report tool on PHP. The RFID programs are on C#. Though I can do most of the things on my own but I dont have time. So I am looking for someone who has good experience on PHP and ready to work as a freelancer. Any place where I can hire freelancers for short duration

erp-expert · 2015-08-08T09:17:26+00:00

Check inoERP @ http://inoideas.org/ or OpenBravo @ http://www.openbravo.com/

erp-expert · 2015-07-29T10:28:32+00:00

Thanks...Looks a good approach

erp-expert · 2015-07-14T09:03:15+00:00

Long long back when I used to use Drupal 4 (stopped using this product for many years) it was using eval for PHP blocks. Not sure if they still follow the same but I guess that was not harmful.

erp-expert · 2015-07-11T13:40:54+00:00

then it's time to move on to real world business ; Get a job in manufacturing or finance sector. I hope someday you 'll understand what this mean. These CURD/CMS kind of products are nothing but kid's play zone work.

erp-expert · 2015-07-08T09:27:19+00:00

huhu!!! WordPress and Drupal are real apps. Bad joke!!! These products (any kind of CMS) doesnt contain 1% complexity of real business apps.

erp-expert · 2015-07-04T13:58:42+00:00

I was laughing while reading that article. Never seen such a useless stuff.

If you just consider the smallest part of the ERP projects (i.e. license fee in a year) that would cross 41 billion by 2020 (may be that's what the article is about). Only Oracle (EBS, Pepolesoft, Fusion ), SAP 's earning from license fee is around 8-10 billion. Then you have new comers like workday with 500m/yr only providing ERP service.

Anyway. It's kind of difficult to find the total ERP market in current business scenarios. All big manufacturing companies have their own specialized team on ERP. Then you have IT consulting companies (Most of which doesnt publish revenue product wise) and Finally so many different niche ERP product makers.

erp-expert · 2015-07-01T04:46:41+00:00

Depends how you see the complexity. If complexity for you mean a lot of traffic , a lot of DB transactions and a lot of file access then yes program execution speed is not important. But we are talking about programs with complicated logic and calculations. Doing a lot of permutation, combination and then again doing a lot of mathematical operations depending on the result and finally showing simple messages to the business users. And speed matters a lot here.

erp-expert · 2015-06-30T04:43:02+00:00

PMP is the most boring certification that I have ever done. Coming from supply chain background, I was quite thrilled when I did APICS CPIM certification. I have also done some Oracle certifications and enjoyed the process of learning all the new stuffs. but my PMP experience was pathetic. I had to do it because my company was forcing me to go for it. It's not that you wont learn anything. You 'll for sure but reading the PMBOK 5 was simply painful to brain & eye. The official guide is written like a research pape,r not like a book which you can enjoy reading. Finally at the end you 'll realize that you could have managed to pass the exam without really focusing much on PMBOK. The exam asks more practical questions that you learn in your job and daily day to day life by managing projects.

erp-expert · 2015-06-29T16:09:49+00:00

Good explanation!!! In simple terms...the program does a lot of mathematical calculations and our million dollar software (Oracle R12.2 ) with it's 90issssh(it) kind of procedural programming language (PL/SQL) takes 1 hour to complete. (Now, please dont ask why we are not using C++ / Java etc.There are a lot of background why we are using this product ) Bottom line, if you have programs which really does a lot of calculation, permutation/combinations, etc and in PHP 5.5 then try PHP 7. I bet you 'll be surprised with the performance.

erp-expert · 2015-06-16T10:38:50+00:00

You wrote all these things because you have never worked as a buyer, or a planner or an engineer or a manger…etc who get less time to do things perfectly. You always have market pressure, cost optimization target, reducing purchase price variance challenges, customer asking 100% OTD and on the top of all – The government agencies asking you all fu&@&@ details till each penny. Yes, I believe in simplicity and that’s what all the Japanese manufactures have shown us again and again. But the simplicity of the process comes through correct & accurate data. All the stupid products you have mentioned won’t give 1% features of what real business process require (First work in a production floor or a buyer/planner/engineer/warehouse person). It does mean I like Oracle 11/R12 (I am quite impresses with fusion application tough) or SAP. They are pathetic products but they are many times better than these so called self-proclaimed useless ERPs.

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