Open source ERP software
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We share an office with a company who do consulting with a product called Compiere - its a Java/oracle GPL ERP package. http://www.compiere.org/ I've been told its a good product, but I don't really know much more about it. Have a look!
I'll take a look... but Oracle is expensive unless there is an open-source license that I don't know of... thanks!
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
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I'll take a look... but Oracle is expensive unless there is an open-source license that I don't know of... thanks!
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
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Hello, A friend of mine is starting a business and he is looking for ERP software, but his budget is quite small (close to $0), so I suggested looking for an open source alternative. A quick Google turned out a lot of results, and I really doubt all of them are good. Does anyone here know about one or two that are actually good so I can start to look at them? His needs are basically sales and a little of manufacturing, altough CRM and finance functinality would also be helpful. Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
I'm in ERPs since they were MRPs !!! I'm a bit curious because ERP (is a procedure by the way NOT a software), is quite a massive software that needs at least 3+ people to manage & maintain. It's a bit strange that your friend has or will have a company that requires such a complex solution and can't afford 1$. ERP contains CRM (you need salesmen to work this), Material Resource Planning (You need technical/designer staff to handle this), Master Production Scheduler (You need supervisory/production floor managers), .... etc (requires accountants, stock controllers, ... etc). Maybe what your friend wants is a simple MRP-I (Material Resource Planning) system, because the operational costs of MRP-II / ERP are too high for a 0$ budget !!!
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Hello, A friend of mine is starting a business and he is looking for ERP software, but his budget is quite small (close to $0), so I suggested looking for an open source alternative. A quick Google turned out a lot of results, and I really doubt all of them are good. Does anyone here know about one or two that are actually good so I can start to look at them? His needs are basically sales and a little of manufacturing, altough CRM and finance functinality would also be helpful. Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
Have you checked this one http://www.tinyerp.org/ ? I have read some review of the following ERP here[^] (but it is in French): http://www.compiere.org/ http://www.erp5.org/ http://community.igalia.com/twiki/bin/view/Fisterra http://ofbiz.apache.org/ http://www.taika-informatique.com/pgi.php http://www.evalue.org/docs.html
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I'm in ERPs since they were MRPs !!! I'm a bit curious because ERP (is a procedure by the way NOT a software), is quite a massive software that needs at least 3+ people to manage & maintain. It's a bit strange that your friend has or will have a company that requires such a complex solution and can't afford 1$. ERP contains CRM (you need salesmen to work this), Material Resource Planning (You need technical/designer staff to handle this), Master Production Scheduler (You need supervisory/production floor managers), .... etc (requires accountants, stock controllers, ... etc). Maybe what your friend wants is a simple MRP-I (Material Resource Planning) system, because the operational costs of MRP-II / ERP are too high for a 0$ budget !!!
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, this means that you can call an ERP every set of applications that combine and integrate with each other in a way that gives the enterprise a productive boost reducing the redundant inputs and giving a wider and more accurate diagnostic of every aspect of the business. Looking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise\_resource\_planning we can see the modules that usually compose a complete ERP solution, but this doesn't mean that if you don't buy the Manufactory module/functionalities but integrates all the tasks of your business you can call it your ERP, your Enterprise Resource Planner.
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ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, this means that you can call an ERP every set of applications that combine and integrate with each other in a way that gives the enterprise a productive boost reducing the redundant inputs and giving a wider and more accurate diagnostic of every aspect of the business. Looking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise\_resource\_planning we can see the modules that usually compose a complete ERP solution, but this doesn't mean that if you don't buy the Manufactory module/functionalities but integrates all the tasks of your business you can call it your ERP, your Enterprise Resource Planner.
ERP is NOT a software. It's a procedure .... I was only stating the common parts which by the way has nothing to do with whether they belong to the same software or share the same database or being deploed in the same building or city or state or country or continent or planet or solar system or galaxy ... ok, STOP :-D. Each company has different needs and one can use Excel sheets to support the operation procedures of his entire company for all i know. Productive Boost, redundant inputs, ... etc although the goal of ER planning, is not really the definition. God knows how many of us have seen $$$ ERP software $$$ being wronfully utilized. As the name implies it's all about PLANNING, ... Good or Bad, that's really a problem of the planner and not of the software. Enterprize Resource Planning is something that is done BEFOREHAND. Not DURING and certainly not after (wish more people knew that). It would be easier for many if we could stop considering the ERP procedure as a production tool. It's really not. It's the actions (brainstorming period) that will create the functions and define the operation guidelines of the tools (CRM, ... etc) that the user chose to use to support the various departments (Sales, Production, Accounting, ... etc). Sorry, but i got rumbling again ...
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Hello, A friend of mine is starting a business and he is looking for ERP software, but his budget is quite small (close to $0), so I suggested looking for an open source alternative. A quick Google turned out a lot of results, and I really doubt all of them are good. Does anyone here know about one or two that are actually good so I can start to look at them? His needs are basically sales and a little of manufacturing, altough CRM and finance functinality would also be helpful. Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
May be this one can help you ;) http://www.persapiens.org Regards, Odimar Tomazeli
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ERP is NOT a software. It's a procedure .... I was only stating the common parts which by the way has nothing to do with whether they belong to the same software or share the same database or being deploed in the same building or city or state or country or continent or planet or solar system or galaxy ... ok, STOP :-D. Each company has different needs and one can use Excel sheets to support the operation procedures of his entire company for all i know. Productive Boost, redundant inputs, ... etc although the goal of ER planning, is not really the definition. God knows how many of us have seen $$$ ERP software $$$ being wronfully utilized. As the name implies it's all about PLANNING, ... Good or Bad, that's really a problem of the planner and not of the software. Enterprize Resource Planning is something that is done BEFOREHAND. Not DURING and certainly not after (wish more people knew that). It would be easier for many if we could stop considering the ERP procedure as a production tool. It's really not. It's the actions (brainstorming period) that will create the functions and define the operation guidelines of the tools (CRM, ... etc) that the user chose to use to support the various departments (Sales, Production, Accounting, ... etc). Sorry, but i got rumbling again ...
I agree when you say that "Enterprize Resource Planning is something that is done BEFOREHAND. Not DURING and certainly not after (wish more people knew that)." But for an enterprise to be accurate on the planning it usually takes a lot of comparing with similar periods on previous years for example, it take a lot of data compare and grouping to be accurate on the planing. Is for this matter that enterprises need the various modules that manage the several sectors of their business to be linked together in one database, accessible as a whole and be manipulated by reporting modules. This is the real use of ERP... help you plan based on historical info gathered from the several sectors of you business.
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May be this one can help you ;) http://www.persapiens.org Regards, Odimar Tomazeli
A quick look at the demo seems interesting... too bad I don't know a lot of portuguese :~ But I'll take a better look later... Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
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I agree when you say that "Enterprize Resource Planning is something that is done BEFOREHAND. Not DURING and certainly not after (wish more people knew that)." But for an enterprise to be accurate on the planning it usually takes a lot of comparing with similar periods on previous years for example, it take a lot of data compare and grouping to be accurate on the planing. Is for this matter that enterprises need the various modules that manage the several sectors of their business to be linked together in one database, accessible as a whole and be manipulated by reporting modules. This is the real use of ERP... help you plan based on historical info gathered from the several sectors of you business.
Maybe it's me but i'm a bit confused about what you said. E.'RESOURCE'.P is not about statistics or about analysing sales numbers, or production reports. These are all outputs from the tools you've created DURING the phase of E.R.Planning. E.R.P doesn't SET GOALS. It's the step required to outline, design and implement the desired 'thinking & acting' into a buissiness. I agree that "Comparing", as you say is a basic step but i'm convinced that it's not a part of ERP. Historical Info although a "Resource" (and most valuable i might say), their analysis falls on the scope of 'Goal Seek' and not in 'Resource Planning'. The ERP software, by itself is AFTER the ERP phase. It's silly but that's true. The ERP procedure is the one that will create the tools, in this case the "ERP" software. Anyway, i've got to go ...
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Hello, A friend of mine is starting a business and he is looking for ERP software, but his budget is quite small (close to $0), so I suggested looking for an open source alternative. A quick Google turned out a lot of results, and I really doubt all of them are good. Does anyone here know about one or two that are actually good so I can start to look at them? His needs are basically sales and a little of manufacturing, altough CRM and finance functinality would also be helpful. Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
This is the one category of software that I would be mystified if it existed. A business that can't afford business software is either a) too small to need it or b) to cheap to stay in business very long. A developer that makes free open source software for a target market that has no problem paying for software is a) Insane b) crazy
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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Hello, A friend of mine is starting a business and he is looking for ERP software, but his budget is quite small (close to $0), so I suggested looking for an open source alternative. A quick Google turned out a lot of results, and I really doubt all of them are good. Does anyone here know about one or two that are actually good so I can start to look at them? His needs are basically sales and a little of manufacturing, altough CRM and finance functinality would also be helpful. Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
Take a look to FacturaLUX: http://www.facturalux.org It is GNU & runs under Linux. Main development is done in Spanish. Best regards.
Pedro J. Molina, PhD http://pjmolina.com Capgemini, Spain
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Hello, A friend of mine is starting a business and he is looking for ERP software, but his budget is quite small (close to $0), so I suggested looking for an open source alternative. A quick Google turned out a lot of results, and I really doubt all of them are good. Does anyone here know about one or two that are actually good so I can start to look at them? His needs are basically sales and a little of manufacturing, altough CRM and finance functinality would also be helpful. Thanks! :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
Interesting thread...just out of curiousity...does anyone have resources for needs/gap analysis? Also, does anyone have experience with any open source ERP applications with respect to manufacturing? It's been awhile since I've worked with ERP/MRPII, but might have a project coming up...guess I should sharpen my skills just a bit :)