Simon,
Congrats and thanks for sharing. Couple of interesting points come to mind:
You mentioned: "as opposed to going with a product like SAP"
* proof that OFBiz can compete at the highest level
* and anecdotal evidence is that an SAP implementation starts at a few
million $'s
* and there are lots of stories of multi-million $ implementations
that still run into trouble
* I think this is an excellent case for OFBiz
How nice would it be to have a collection of case studies like this
formalized somewhere on the web?
* suspect we'd have problems publishing on ofbiz.org (understandable,
it can't get too "salesy")
* perhaps some other domain?
* It would be nice to think that as a community we could leverage this
type of case study and get adoption with some larger companies
You mentioned "should be prepared for difficulties ..."
* agreed, but compared to a huge commercial product (like SAP) this
learning curve is still more manageable
* and more cost effective
Again, congrats!
Nick
On 11/13/2014 10:32 AM, Heidi Dehaes wrote:
Congratulations Simon.
Nice big project !
Regards,
Eric
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2014-11-13 15:58 GMT+01:00 simon maskell<[email protected]>:
Hi everyone, I don’t often post on the mailing list but I was speaking to
one
of the committers at the weekend and they thought it would be good to share
our Ofbiz development with the community, with a view to getting more
non-ecommerce users using Ofbiz.
We have been working with Ofbiz for 2.5 years and plan to rollout Ofbiz to
5
companies across 8 countries and a total of 1800 user.
So far we have completed 1 company which comprises of
• Telecentre System and lead management
• Sales Orders
• Invoicing
• Product configurators
• CRM
• Human Resource
• Purchase Orders
• Stock Management
• Hand Held
All of the above applications have taken the Ofbiz components as a starting
point and then we have extended and added our own customisations(some quite
heavily) to get Ofbiz working how we want it to.
Going forward we are looking to introduce
• Service Management, this will allow us to make planned warranty
visits and
breakdowns. We have a network of 11 branches around the UK and 250 service
engineers out on the road.
• MRP – We manufacture in 2 different countries
• Installation Scheduling – We install our products and need a way to
optimise our installations team.
• We are also continuing to make changes to the current live Ofbiz
components, as we remove more of our legacy systems.
Most of the above will be introduced into the remaining 4 companies and we
feel confident that each company/country will be quicker than the previous
as our code base builds up.
My view on Ofbiz is that it’s a great product once you have taken time to
really understand it and its probably this that is the biggest barrier for
companies taking it up. When we first started looking at Ofbiz almost
everyone outside of IT was against it, we had to do numerous presentation
and explanation as to why we should go with Ofbiz as opposed to going with
a
product like SAP. Now we have got it working for one company and people
can
see the benefits, we are now being asked to delivery it into the business
faster(Now our presentations are setting expectation on when it will be
delivered)
Anyone wanting to introduce Ofbiz, should be prepared for the difficulties
at the beginning of the project but I am sure by the end of the project
they
will be more than please they chose Ofbiz.
Just like to thank all the committers and contributors who have worked on
producing a great product.
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