Good afternoon, Ei, Jijo..I'm willing to share my expertise in major ERP business processes (order to cash, purchase to payment, inventory management, financials - GL/SL, payroll, manufacturing, fixed assets, financial statement closing process). I'm currently conducting a functional and security evaluation of the following Open Source ERPs: Openbravo, Adempiere/Compiere, TinyERP and Postbooks in a Philippine business environment.
Payroll is the easiest major business process. It is more or less the same process across industries. The only difference is on the configuration of rates (some companies have higher percentages in night diff - more than 10%, and overtime rates - more than 25%). Even the computation of income tax may be different depending on the basis (gross/annualized or basic). A Philippine payroll system is easy to build if you understand the four payroll sub processes: HR 201 maintenance, Time keeping, payroll processing, and payroll recording. I do have an internal payroll system project developed in Java and PostgreSQL, but it was created for testing the accuracy of payroll computations during Test of Controls phase of my audit engagements. By the way, TinyERP has a major disadvantage. It cannot accomodate multiple payments for a single invoice (TinyERP tries to write-off the balance of the account receivable or payable, when you try to pay partially, although I think there is a workaround). If you want to implement a philippine payroll module for TinyERP, you can start with a template of countries (U.S. and U.K.) using progressive taxation for income tax calculations. Count me in to any Open Source initiative especially involving financial or security projects. Merry Christmas PLUGgers! Regards, Cris Masancay On Dec 20, 2007 10:18 PM, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:02 +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > > My company is deploying and customizing TinyERP internally and for some > > clients. It is a very good framework, despite rough edges that need > > work. It lacks a payroll module, though, and we are looking to invest > > time in developing a TinyERP payroll module that will be applicable at > > least for the Philippine scenario. > > Thank you very much to all those who have replied, both on-list and > off-list, to signify their interest in joining this effort. Just a heads > up that I have also posted about this on the TinyERP forums (see > http://tinyerp.org/forum/post16181.html) and hope to generate global > interest, as well. > > My team will discuss what sustainable level of commitment we can make > towards this initiative during our planning workshop first week of 2008, > after which I will contact all those who signified interest to join, and > also post updates to the TinyERP forum and this mailing list, so that we > can schedule face-to-face "coding parties" to drive the initiative > forward. > > Cheers! > > > -- > Federico Sevilla III > F S 3 Consulting Inc. > http://www.fs3.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Christian Masancay _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
