Working with OpenERP

 

Learn to utilize OpenERP to transform and streamline your business

Overview

• Learn to install and configure OpenERP on Windows or Ubuntu
• Understand how to enter sales orders, create invoices, and receive payments step-by-step
• Implement powerful purchasing and manufacturing modules in OpenERP using real-world examples
• Learn advanced OpenERP features and how to create your own custom modules
• Use a non-technical approach for incorporating an ERP system into your business

Product Details

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 25, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1782163808
• ISBN-13: 978-1782163800
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #489,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Greg Moss

Greg Moss has been a Business and Information Systems Consultant for over 25 years. Starting in 1988, Greg began to work extensively in financial- and accounting-related applications. He wrote his first custom billing system for a rehabilitation facility at the age of 20. He has worked extensively in the health care, point of sale, manufacturing, telecommunications, and service industries. Greg is both a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, and was the Chief Information Officer at Crownline Boats, Inc.

In addition to OpenERP, he has experience in a variety of ERP systems and was a Sage Pro partner for several years. Greg is the CEO of First Class Ventures, LLC and owner of FirstClassComputerConsulting.com, an OpenERP ready partner.

In his spare time you can find him playing trumpet with his band at a local club, taking cross-country road trips with his African Grey Parrot named Bibi, or sieging a castle with his MMORPG friends.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful Working with OpenERP, the perfect reference? By Bart van der Meer on February 7, 2014 Format: Kindle Edition Amazon Verified Purchase Working with OpenERP, the perfect reference?
Implementing an ERP system in any organization can be a time consuming and complicated project. Choosing the right ERP system for your organization may be even more complicated. If your choice is OpenERP, then you do need to make sure that you have access to the right documentation. Although everything is available online, information is often limited to a specific subject or based on questions users have. Making it a difficult task to find the answers and information you need.
Working with OpenERP tries to bundle all the information into a comprehensive book giving you access to most of the modules available with OpenERP and how to set them up.
Going by the Preface the book will show us how to customize the application to fit the needs of practically any business. Although every business owner or manager will oppose against such a statement, let’s give it the benefit of the doubt and see how far we get with it.
First of all the book reads very well, plain language and with almost every feature described a screenshot is available to make it easier to find and understand where it fits in to the application.
It is easy to follow the instructions on setting up your trial account for OpenERP online and it even provides instructions on downloading the system for implementation on-premise. If this first chapter is to complicated for the reader, they might need to reconsider their decision to implement an ERP system in the first place. Does chapter 1 apply to practically any business? The answer here is no. It does apply to many business cases, though only if your business has a straight forward setup, ie. 1 company, 1 office, 1 warehouse and a few staff members.
Chapter 2 describes how to setup your company and define some of the basic settings. Without going into details on setting up an accounting system, here the books falls short. Unless you deal with local or national customers only, it won’t get you far. Where accounting is the most important part of any company and thus should also be treated as such in an ERP system, Working with OpenERP, makes it sound very easy to do. Although nobody will be enthousiastic about paying taxes, we all know it has to be done and it must be calculated correctly regardless of where the customer is based. The example in Working with OpenERP simply bypasses all the exceptions to the rules and uses a single tax rate. Those companies in business with international customers or customers in other states won’t find much if any guidance on how to deal with these tax rates. In short does Chapter 2 of Working with OpenERP apply to practically any business, the answer would be no. I would rather say it doesn’t apply to practically any business.
Based on the first 2 chapters the book doesn’t apply to practically any business, meaning it does apply to many businesses, but not to practically any business. Without going to describe every chapter in detail, it is definitely worth reading the book. The preface may have been written down a little bit too enthusiastic by the authors and you can’t judge a book by the preface alone.
Working with OpenERP does give you plenty of information on features and possibilities. It may even work out of the box for you and you can simply use the book as your manual. It is a great tool to understand the flow of the various modules available for OpenERP and how to use the basics. It almost reads as a product brochure and maybe that is what it is. Reading the complete book you may think that it’s all too good to be true, too easy to be true. And the truth is it isn’t all good and easy, setting up an ERP system for any company requires customization and it is impossible to fit all the options and customizations in to a 300 page book.
It would have been helpful if the authors had spent a little bit more time on exceptions, accounting and the relations between modules as this would make the book even better to use for a lot of businesses as their manual.
Nevertheless the book is definitely worth reading for all “potential” users of OpenERP. It is a great reference for those who don’t want to go through thousands of pages online.
Would I recommend the book? Or should I buy it again? The answer is YES, I would recommend reading it if you are new to OpenERP or if you think your company is fairly straight forward with regards to the organizational structure and workflows. If you are running a more complicated setup and doing international business, then use the book to learn the basics but be aware that customization is required.
Working with OpenERP is probably the only available reference in which most features and modules of OpenERP version 7 are clearly described as far as the basics are concerned. For detailed and more complicated setups your only reference will be the world wide web.