You move biz process to electronic format, so that things can be data-mined and paper work can be avoided and hopefully things become more efficient and automated. Thats ERP.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:34 PM, ஆமாச்சு <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 ;-) > > -- > > ஆமாச்சு > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Nothing is constant Regards A.K.Karthikeyan http://is.gd/kblogs _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
