Hi Simon, Thanks for sharing your experiences. One of the line you mentioned in your email is:
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. Could you please share presentations and explanations you did to adopt OFBiz ? It will help surely help to increase adaptability of OFBiz . Thanks in advance -- Divesh Dutta. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:28 PM, simon maskell <simon_mask...@stannah.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Testimonial-tp4658168.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
