Compiere Overview

Compiere was perhaps one of the first open source ERP solutions for small and mid-sized businesses in distribution, retail, services, and manufacturing. It launched in 1999 and was a top 10 project on SourceForge for four consecutive years beginning in 2002 and reaching one million downloads and 100 partners by 2006.

Compiere is a model driven architectural development and deployment framework that contains tools for Purchasing , Materials Management, Manufacturing, Order Management, Sales, Service, E-Commerce, Financial Management and Performance Reporting functions. Compiere provides multiple views of business information based on the detail of the actual transactions.

Features

Some of the features of Compiere include:

• Order Management: This function covers the business process for creating a quote for a prospect or customer, order management, invoicing and cash receipt. The functionality is integrated with Supply Chain Management and Customer Management. In traditional systems, you find this in modules like order entry and accounts receivables.
• Warehouse Management: Improves warehouse productivity by automating inbound and outbound logistics.
• Material Management: This supply chain Management function covers inventory receipts, shipments, moves and counts within a client and its organizations and to suppliers and customers.
• Manufacturing Management: It is capable of multi-level Bills of Material, work-in-process tracking, completion of final assemblies to shipping, work order costing, create work orders and select customer specific options at order entry time, and integration with Compiere’s existing materials management, purchasing, sales order management and financial systems.
• Sales Management: This function provides automated solutions for customer request for a service, requests to reimburse costs, request for customer or vendor order, shipment, invoice or payment, warranty and helpdesk.
• Web Store: Compiere Web Store can be run with rest of the ERP data without the effort of synchronization. The store provides different facilities like On Line Product Catalog, On Line Pricing and availability, On Line Sales Transaction, Customer Management etc.
• Performance Management: Generate reports and manage the performance of your enterprise business solutions.
• Purchase Management: Automate different value chain from procurement to payment.

Here is an overview of the feature/functions of Compiere's Professional edition:

One notable module that's missing from Compiere is Human Resources Management (HRM) so, clients requiring this function may need to integrate with a third party HRM application or be better looking at a product like Odoo that does include modules for HRM.

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