[Ilugc] what is openERP
- From: amachu@xxxxxxxxxx (ஆமாச்சு)
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:34:05 +0530
I am new to ERP things. i wanna know what exactly openERP does. where
it is used for.
you think of an organization, it has many things to take care.
sales, purchase, warehouse, human beings, manufacturing, accounts and many more.
each of these have their own work-flows/ processes defined and followed.
each will have group of people or departments to take care of each one of these.
to manage an organization without an ERP would require lot of clerks, paper
works and time.
with ERP it happens, over click of a mouse.
a software that helps in efficiently managing an enterprise is OpenERP.
It comes with a Web interface (CherryPy framework) & Client interface (Gtk+)
and picking up good these days. You don't have to worry about these, unless you
want to develop OpenERP itself.
if we are creating an ERP app for a firm using openERP how
its practically done i have gone through some tutorials it looks something
huge to me. please tell me in short and simple english
You need to learn Python, Object Relational Mapping, PostgreSQL, XML for views
and RML for reports. And when it comes to real time deployment, much deeper
understanding of all these would be needed.
Better to take up subscription from OpenERP at serious cases.
Overall it gives you a framework and in almost all cases we end up customizing
it following steps at:
http://doc.openerp.com/v6.1/developer/index.html#book-develop-link
Start with small steps, like installing a particular module say sales,
understand its entire workflow, think of a change like adding a new field,
functionality etc., try achieving it.
for the module that you have learnt functionally, there are apps that extend or
modify its core features at:
http://apps.openerp.com/
Download few of them, install and go through their code. Understand how they
inherit another module and the changes are implemented. This is what you will
end up doing practically unless you create your own fork like Tryton :-)
You know what a module and package is in Python you are all set to go after
this ;-)
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