Purchase Order System for Linux? 41
trav3l3r asks: "Does anyone out there have any experience with Purchase Order software for Linux? Web based would be preferred. I am trying to set up a P.O. system for a small business (5 employees) in the area and trying to keep cost down for them. I have done the pre-requisite search on Google and Freshmeat and found very little. Any advice would be appreciated."
DotProject (Score:5, Informative)
Re:DotProject (Score:2)
I'm a contributor to dotproject and this request has been made before. It has been ranked lower priority since it normally is something that doesn't directly fall in line with project management.
Compiere (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Compiere (Score:2)
Re:Compiere (Score:5, Informative)
I'm also looking for something similar and... (Score:3, Informative)
I use it (Score:1)
I have hosted my sql-ledger system on both windows and on linux. And the fact that it can export pdfs of my bills/etc is great!
OfBiz (Score:4, Informative)
Re:OfBiz (Score:5, Funny)
There's enough meaningless officious buzzwords there to kill a whole team of horses.
What does it DO?
Re:OfBiz (Score:2)
Re:OfBiz (Score:5, Informative)
We'd tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.
Obviously are you are not in the 'business', so you don't know the secret handshake.
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
MRP - Manufacturing Resource Planning
SCM - Supply Chain Management
E-Commerce is vague. It could be EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) But it looks more like it's just a web store. BFD. Covers B2C, but certainly doesn't my definition for B2B. No mention of EDIFACT or x.12? Maybe in 5 years if ebXML takes off.
CMMS/EAM - Computer Maintenance Management System/Enterprice Asset Mangement
Google will tell you what all the acronyms are. But, despite having all of this in their 'product description', I see no link between that and their features list that explains HOW they meet the criteria for them.
A PHB can see all the acronyms that an IT department might be looking for, but it will be a time consuming process finding out if the system actually supports any of it.
Of course, now I'm going to have to bookmark it as a reference and investigate the component projects they are using. Thank you, I'm supposed to be on vacation until tomorrow.....
Oh, and while OfBiz is MIT licensed. They are aggregating other open source projects that carry their own licenses.
Re:OfBiz (Score:1)
Ah yes, one of the favorite quotes from my childhood. Although it was usually followed by screaming from my sister and a stearn warning from my mother about threatening to kill someone.
Re:OfBiz (Score:2)
Re:OfBiz (Score:2)
It looks like some sort of all-in-one supply chain management system using a (very vague) constraint-based solver to generate production orders and delivery schedules direct from customer orders.
So you add put in all the information about your resources (staff, production lines etc), costs (raw materials, wages etc). Then customers order products from the website and the system automatically spits out what yo
Re:OfBiz (Score:2)
They seem to be confused as well. The open source projects they list are Java and Apache related. The closest thing I saw to actually doing work are the reporting packages. I'm not sure why they feel the need to complicate things with two reporting systems. (Datavision, JasperReports)
As far as manufacturing, there is no mention of forecasting, materials management, bills of materials, or KANBAN. There is a
How about FDShopsite? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How about FDShopsite? (Score:1)
Open Office works for me. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Open Office works for me. (Score:2)
Depends on the 'small business (5 employees)'. What kind of business is it? Do they do a lot of purchases, or just the occasional office supplies. Do they need inventory management too? Vendor communications? What are their processes now?
I don't know if I would PDF the POs unless they have an aversion to
Use an ajusted version of WebGUI (Score:2, Interesting)
It works quite well and we'll probably publish our changes to WebGUI on the dutch website [webgui.nl] about this beautifull Content Management System and Application Platform later this year.
Oracle (Score:3, Funny)
SQL-Ledger (Score:4, Interesting)
SQL-Ledger is a full accounting system, and includes purchase orders, quotations, RFQs, sales orders, etc. It also handles general double-entry bookkeeping and most everything else you need to keep up with your money, your suppliers, and your customers. It has nice LaTeX templates for checks, POs, quotes, RFQs, invoices, etc. which are easy to modify if you know LaTeX and not horribly difficult if you don't, since there are instructions for editing with LyX.
I first tried it because of two years worth of failed attempts to make GnuCash work reliably (I've been told GnuCash is more stable today than two years ago when I last tried it), and I really needed to get out of the habit of doing no book-keeping until tax-time or until I realized a customer was late with payment. SQL-Ledger was a last resort because I thought I wanted a local GUI app, so I bounced around trying all kinds of things...and finally settled on SQL-Ledger because it didn't crash, lose data, or lack specific features I needed.
It's written in Perl, reasonably easy to modify, and support from the author is cheap. So, while it's not perfect, I don't hesitate to recommend it to folks who want something a little more flexible than QuickBooks (and the fact that it is web-based has been such a huge win for me that I'll never go back to local GUI apps for this purpose).
Anyway, it's not specific to Purchase Orders, but it handles POs very nicely, and I find I use the bits I understand and leave the rest for later (I'm not much of an accountant, but I learn more every day), and it deals well with working in that way.
Re:SQL-Ledger (Score:2)
-russ
Take a look at quasar (Score:1)
Re:Take a look at quasar (Score:1)
Re:Take a look at quasar (Score:1)
I thought I already said that. A 5 man business could consist of only women. The english language does allow for that. In fact, you'll find the same or more sexless definitions for the word in the dictionary than you will find sexed definitions, and common usage still allows for "man" as a very genderless word. I would point to a certain government organization in the UK that uses that word, but you may have heard of them already, anyways.
the English language (Score:1)
P.S. By "woman" I meant woman or man... I assume the purportedly non-sexist English language allows for this?
Re:the English language (Score:1)
Unfortunately, you've used it incorrectly in that case.
If you'd like to take a look at the dictionary one more time, you'll find no sexless definitions for the word " woman [reference.com]". In fact, the word "woman" could be considered sexist, as some definitions mean it to be a female servant.
>Actually, I would have said "person" rather than "man" or "woman", but I don't think it's safe to debate pronoun usage with a woman such as yourself, as
Re:the English language (Score:1)
Re:the English language (Score:1)
:-) Thanks. /me wipes tear from his eye. I gave up on slashdot for a while after slashdot banned me due to their idiotic anti-troll system. Glad to see not everyone with a brain left.
RT? (Score:3, Informative)
If you're trying to just print out PO forms then open office or any of the other free spreadsheet programs can do that sort of thing.
Since this seems.. (Score:3, Insightful)
adopt an e-commerce app to do it for you (OS Commerce is a pretty good choice, see my URL for it)
use a Windows solution instead
[sarcasm on]
Cool, eh?
[sarcasm off]
What are you trying to do? (Score:2)
If you need a full-fledged EDI solution, you're kinda SOL. Be prepared to pay through the nose for some VAN to move your data, unless all of your business partners can deal with you using something like Templar [templarsoftware.com] (which runs on Linux). You'll also a translator to generate the EDI 850 purchase orders. My shop uses TLE [harbinger.com] (it runs on AIX; dunno about Linux.)
So yeah, it can quickly become a rather expensive p
What projects have you looked at? (Score:2, Informative)
Look at wwww.linux-pos.org.
You need some more detail in your question as well.
Barcode? Web based? Cash register?
What Point of Sale features do you need?
if you really mean Purchase Order System, the options are kinda slim in the Open Source world. Compiere maybe your only option.
www.compiere.org
I would guess, that really with 5 people you will spend more time on the Purchase Order System tha
Simple... (Score:1, Flamebait)
On a serious note...
I just set up a PO system using M$ Excel. Excel has a smaple template that's easily modified into a PO tracking system (it even has some kind of database built in)
It'd take a few days of hacking, but you could probably get the template to work in your favorite Open Source spreadsheet application.
If nothing else, you could easily hack together a PHP/mySQL application.
Looking for EDI? (Score:1)
-zOLIK
Re:Looking for EDI? (Score:1)