The place holder JIRA issue has been created. It can be found here ( OFBIZ-5473 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5473>).
Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Yesterday evening Eduardo (Arellano), Anil (Patel) and myself had a first > brainstorm session via skype about how to deal with (travel) expense > registration and processing in OFBiz. > > In any organization, employees are faced with costs that they incur during > the performance of their functions and / or duties. This happens in > organisations of any size and across all industry sectors. And it happens > throughout the organisation, whether trying to get new business deals (e.g. > sales staff), implementing sold products (e.g. service engineers) or > supporting existing customers (e.g. consultants etc). To name but a few. > The employees pay these expenses out of pocket (cash), with their personal > bank or credit card or with company issued credit cards, vouchers or cash > advances. > > The three of us agreed that an Expense application would be bringing added > value to the feature (and functionality) portfolio of OFBiz and we > discussed potential requirements, processes, issues, data entities and > elements. We also discussed a potential first release and a roadmap. This > brainstorm session proved very valuable visavis insights about reusing > existing data, entities and functions in existing applications like > Accounting, Catalog, HR, Workflow and even Content. > > As this is intended as a community endeavour I invite every person > participating in this project to share their experiences, insights and > provide feedback on this subject (in general) and/or pertaining documents > in WIKI (regarding solution description, use cases, etc) and JIRA > (regarding issues, etc). Of course the documents in WIKI and JIRA need to > be created first. This will happen over the coming days/weeks, and I will > keep you posted about the progress here. > > Regards, > > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com >
