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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