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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business management software — usually a suite of integrated applications — that a company can use to store and manage data from every stage of business.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business management software — usually a suite of integrated applications — that a company can use to store and manage data from every stage of business.

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What's the difference between CRM, CMS and ERP

I know that CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, CMS stands for Content Management System and ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planner. I would like to know what each of things does best and which scenarios they are used in. So basic…
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Is there a canonical resource on ERP?

For a while I've been wanting to learn ERP. What I would like to do is set up a system, and then practice running a business doing things like generating invoices, raising purchase orders, producing monthly accounts, and keeping track of fixed…
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Programmer VS Commercial Systems (ERP)

My question here is relative to jobs for programmers. Why does employer still contract programmers if today we have a lot of good commercial system avaliable on the market? I want to be very clear at this point, this question is relative only to a…
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How do you validate critical input that cannot be vetted?

How does one prevent users from creating erroneous input sets, when there is no practical way to vet the input? The scene I modify a small ERP package written in Visual FoxPro. One part of the package concerns itself with printing truck manifests…
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Bi-directional sync of 2 different APIs

I'm currently assigned a task, where I have to program a bidirectional synchronisation between 2 ERP-related software, one providing webservices (Visual Studio Web Reference) and the other one providing a REST API. I managed to match the fields of…
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Basics of ERP for dummies

A situation has arisen where (if I don't scream and run away) I will be involved in an ERP system. This project will be using OpenERP specifically. My background is entirely science/engineering/music/games/art/whatever. I've never set foot in the…
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Should I avoid data duplication?

I'm trying to design a relatively simple ERP system. However, there are some requirements that complicate things a little bit: It must be possible to add all sorts of contacts to the people table, including clients and co-workers. It must be…
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Database design, how to handle freelancers

The context I'm modeling a database for a small ERP system. However I've recently hit a difficult spot that I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around. The logic of it involves a few special cases, I'm hoping someone with DB design background…
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What about ALM systems, ERPs, and embedded products?

We are working on getting a new application lifecycle management (ALM) system, including a bug tracker, a documentation system, project management, etc. The concern is that we deal with quite complex embedded systems and we would like to have the…
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What is the best toolset for developing an enterprise application for SMBs?

Need a Free, Fast(development and runtime) and Reliable(transactions and locking) tool set for creating an enterprise application for SMBs. I'm thinking of an application framework + UI framework + DB which will help me in developing the software…
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What's the best way to design batch job type processing

I'm working on a portion of an ERP system where I need to process data in a way that's similar to a series of batch jobs, and I'm struggling with deciding the best program architecture to use. I'm asking here because I know I'm ignorant of a lot of…
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Product Codes in ERP: Alphanumeric vs Numeric

Background I'm working through creating a structure for Items in a new ERP (Cloudsuite Industrial) that I'm implementing. For Items (which can be finished goods/products or raw materials), we currently have a three level hierarchical system of…
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How to structure an ERP system in a modular way, with module hierarchy and where do application layers stand in this?

I built an asset management system (a web application) using C# ASP.NET in MVC structure. My project is built upon the ASP.NET Boilerplate template, which includes 5 layers by default. These layers are: Core (Data) layer: Entity classes, domain…
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How to charge customers for AGPL-3 based solution?

If I talk about openERP its and source (AGPL-3), I have studied it, but can't find some question e.g 1: we have developed a School Management System using openERP Version 7.0, as according to my understanding, we cannot sale it to any customer as it…
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General knowledge about building businesses applications for (small) businesses?

How can one a software developer learn about how to provide business solution? including but not limited to, implement business applications in decent software architectural style? CRM, ERP, MDM, SOA etc... are they really strictly reserved for…
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