Questions tagged [erp]
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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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 ...
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What is the best option between buying, building from scratch or implementing an open source ERP? [closed]
I was required to do a medium ERP with the inventory, Bill of Materials, and production modules. However, I do not know how long it would take me.
I am calculating three months for the analysis and ...
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Product Codes in ERP: Alphanumeric vs Numeric
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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 ...
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How can I discover and master the technical system of an ERP and/or a framework published by the company that has just hired me? [closed]
How can I discover and master the technical system of an ERP and/or a framework published by the company that has just hired me?
For example: is it useful to draw UML diagrams on paper (and if so, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Advice on using middleware to phase out legacy ERP system
I would like to know if any of you have any experiences and advice you'd like to share about middleware systems?
A little background first: the company I work for is based entirely on a closed ...
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Design patterns for ERP software with clients and web service
I'll will make ERP software for managing data for business activities. The solution must have two big parts: a WPF application for all the clients and an ASP MVC Web API application for all the client....
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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, ...
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Productivity using .Net WPF for large ERP (LOB) desktop applicatons ~1500 forms\dialogs [closed]
I am wondering if WPF will fit in my case:
We want to refactor an old legacy application written in a 4GL language with about 1500 forms\dialogs. We want to do that in .Net (desktop application), now ...
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Database design, how to handle freelancers
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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 ...
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New to Data Warehouses/ERP
The organisation I work for is very application rich i.e. there are lots of SQL and Oracle databases. We are thinking about a data warehouse.
I believe there is a difference between an Enterprise ...
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Functions returning either "OK" or "error message" instead of procedures
I have joined writing middle-size multi-purpose database application as co-lead. It currently has about 150 tables (and growing) and overall functionality you can imagine as very small ERP.
At many ...
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can a software be an ERP and CMS simultaneously [closed]
I was reading about CMS and ERP. And got confused at this point that whether a system can both be an ERP and a CMS? is it possible?
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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 ...
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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/...
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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?
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I modify a small ERP package written in Visual FoxPro. One part of the ...
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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 ...
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What's the difference between CRM, CMS and ERP [closed]
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 ...
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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, ...
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Is there a canonical resource on ERP? [closed]
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 ...
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How to explain that full automation of a spreadsheets data sources isn't a good idea?
Have an Excel spreadsheet that summarizes various key metrics for the business. The source data for these metrics comes from various sources including other spreadsheets, and web/ERP systems.
A ...
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Programmer VS Commercial Systems (ERP) [closed]
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 ...
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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 + ...
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