Conduct research on an ERP package other than SAP that would be suitable for a large organization (>Php 1 billion in revenue) and compare the modules that it has to SAP modules.

5 Rules for ERP Success

Understand the benefits. “You should not define an ERP’s success by whether it’s delivered on time or on budget,” says one CIO from a global manufacturing company.  “You need to focus on the benefits of the implementation and whether those benefits are realized after go-live.  All too often, companies spend huge amounts of money and then forget about the payback.”

Don’t clip the tail of the project. Many companies fail to include "leave behind" resources — both in IT and in the business — when they plan their ERP implementations.  “With ERP, processes change, things are different, and the senior who knew his way around the campus [in the old system] is now a freshman who needs a lot of support and guidance,” says a CIO. “You must allocate resources to focus on process and system improvements as the implementation team moves on to another site.  Businesspeople on the implementation team are always in a rush to return to their ‘old’ jobs, but when that happens, there’s no one left to make the new system better.” Or as another CIO put it, “Go-live is the start, not the end, of a true implementation if you want to achieve the positive outcomes you’re after.”

Don’t underestimate the importance of master data governance.  Data, data, everywhere, but not a drop that’s clean. “It sounds so mundane,” says a CIO friend, “but master data governance is critical to driving ongoing value from a global ERP.”  Some companies spend a lot of time and money aligning processes, but not enough on cleansing and managing the data. “It is all about the data,” says another CIO. “Bad data equal bad ERP results.”

Prepare for the dip.  The best-laid schemes of mice and men, as Robert Burns knew, “gang aft agley,” which, if you’re not familiar with Scottish dialect, means your business is bound to suffer a bit during the afterglow of a go-live, bringing, as he wrote, “grief and pain for promised joy.”  Rather than be taken by surprise, why not plan for it? “Despite best efforts, there will typically be a business-performance dip in the first month or two post-go-live as the business learns to operate within the new model,” says a CIO. “Having well-thought-out contingencies and a ‘hypercare’ support model in place will minimize the dip and ensure that the organization exits from that dip as rapidly as possible.”

Don’t overload the ERP.  “Perhaps the most critical thing for a CFO to understand is that ERP programs are like replacing the wiring in your house,” says Mamasource CEO Marc West, who has spent time in CIO, COO, and CEO positions. “You already have the house [your business and its operations] but you are threading in a new core element.  Make sure you don’t overload the job with a bunch of wonderful, amazing, bright shiny new things.  Be sure that your business today can run against current performance metrics before you add in process reengineering, new features, and deep analytics.”


5 ERP Errors CFO’s can avoid

Selecting the wrong product. Unbelievably,  companies often select ERP packages that are not commonly used in their industries.  In addition to looking for the right balance of reliability and flexibility, the ERP vendor you choose should have a long list of happy customers in the same industry as your own.

Locating program leadership too low in the organization. ERP is a game-changing project that requires leadership in the upper echelons. I have had first-hand experience recruiting ERP program leaders for management teams who then want to shove those leaders three rungs below the executive committee.  At the midmanagement level, these directors do not have either the visibility or influence to lead. Consequently, the program suffers.

Assuming that ERP is an IT project. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: ERP is not an IT project; it is a business project, and it requires more than business sponsorship. It requires business leadership, not to mention resources, commitment, and engagement.  If your CIO is the only executive giving ERP project updates, you are headed for trouble.  And if your CIO agrees to launch an ERP project without a true and committed executive partner from the business, you have the wrong CIO.


Ignoring the talent question. Sometimes I tell clients, “Finding SAP talent is easy. Just add a zero to their monthly pay.” (I’ve  noticed that clients almost never laugh at this joke, so I’m thinking about retiring it.) Ask yourself, Can your company effectively recruit a pool of talent that has experience in your specific ERP package?  Can you pay them enough? Can you attract them to your company and your neck of the woods?  I have seen companies push back their ERP launch date because recruiting those rare birds with the right blend of industry, technology, and leadership experience is much harder than they anticipated.

Underestimating how long an ERP will take. It is rare for a company to complete an ERP implementation (or upgrade) in the time they budget at the start.  This is one formula for estimating an implementation time line; there are others.  But whatever formula you use, you have to build in a cushion because, if history is a guide, you are bound to need more time.

1. Types of Open Source

SAP AG:

ERP5 is an Open Source / Free Enterprise Resource Planning framework which has been specialised to provide a growing number of applicative solutions for enterprise and government management.

ERP5 MRP

Born in the industry, ERP5 covers the full range of requirements to manage a production facility: BOMs, Production Orders, Production Reports, Material Requirement Planning, Complex Supply Chains, etc. ERP5's multidimensional model allows for managing multiple independent factories within the same database, either in centralised or distributed mode.

ERP5 CRM

ERP5 CRM  provides an extensible solution to track customers, their career history, their relation to organisations and all related events. It includes a flexible workflow based ticket management system to support sales opportunities, support requests and non conformance reports. It can act as a consolidation solution for all contact information in an organisation with full multidimensional classification and built-in LDAP interfacing.

ERP5 Finance

ERP5 includes advanced multidimensional analytical accounting. It can fit the needs of small companies, groups of companies, multinational companies and governmental organisations. The ERP5 accounting model combines mutliple accounting plans in a single environment. It supports both private accounting (ex. PCG, OHADA, etc.) and public accounting (ex. M14). ERP5 Accounting has been designed with and certified by chartered accountants.

ERP5 Payroll

ERP5 Payroll generates paysheets based on flexible parameters. Multiple legislations can be supported within a single database. 

ERP5 Commerce

ERP5 Commerce is a front end to ERP5 for online order management (online shop, online procurement, etc.). It synchronises with an ERP5 backoffice server through the industry standard SyncML protocol.

• Accounting, Finance and Budget

• ERP5 for Customer Relationship Management

• ERP5 for Production Management

• ERP5 for Knowledge Management

• ERP5 for Banking

• ERP5 for Defense and Aerospace

• ERP5 for Government

• ERP5 for Health and Patient Records

•  ERP5 Apparel and clothing

"ERP5 is an open source ERP based on Python and Zope. It has the particularity of being based on an unified Model to describe its implementation." - wikipedia

Learning development with ERP5 can take initially from 4 hours to 1 year, depending on how deep you want to go in terms of know how and scope. If you want to develop gadgets and reports, OSOE provides learning tracks to bootstrap a developer in less than one day. If you want to develop extensions to ERP5 core, patience is required since ERP5 scope is quite wide, as wide for example as the Linux kernel itself.

Learning Tracks

Learning tracks consist of a sequence of lessons designed for a given target audience.

• Experienced developers who wish to develop complete ERP5 applications should read the learning track "How to create a forum module". This learning track teaches everything a developer should know about python, Zope, ERP5 development environment and ERP5 guidelines.
• Students, developers and consultants who wish to contribute reports and gadgets should read "Introduction to development over the Cloud using Python and ERP5". This guide explains how to extend ERP5 default reports and gadgets by using ERP5 "through the Web" development environment. 

More learning tracks will be provided upon request to meet other goals (ex. learning simulation, learning reflexive programing, etc.)

Documentation

The current document of ERP5 is divided into: 

• Design Documents which explain the underlying architecture and philosophy
• Howtos which explain how to achieve specific task (managed on Community Wiki)
• Guidelines which explain core principles to enforce in ERP5 (managed on Community Wiki)

Wikipedia ERP5 page also contains useful information to understand the underlying concepts of ERP5.

ERP5 Source Code

An index of ERP5 source code is provided as part of the documentation. ERP5 consists of products and business templates. 

• Products contain generic classes which implement ERP5 Unified Business Model (UBM).
• Business Templates use generic classes provided by Products to implement business applications (ex. accounting, CRM, HR, etc.)

Other Code

Code which was written for use in/around ERP5, but which is also made to be reusable separately.

• xfw (vcs), a fixed-width file parser & generator. Some formats were not as gifted lucky as others, but we have to treat them all equaly.
• SlapOS: provisioning and billing system for the cloud.

Mailing Lists

The list of available mailing lists is given here.

• ERP5 Report mailing list. The erp5-report mailing list keeps you informed about the latest developments related to ERP5 through automatically generated reports. Currently, this list is used to post svn activities and the results of automatic unit testing.
• ERP5 Users mailing list The erp5-users mailing list is intended for users of ERP5 interested in sharing their experience. It is the right place to ask questions about installation, setup, features, configuration, etc.
• ERP5 Developers mailing list. The erp5-dev mailing list is intended for developers of ERP5. It is the right place to share technical information about ERP5's core architecture or to discuss new features added to the SVN branches.

DESCRIPTIONS:

High Performance

Description: This document will present you how to reach high performance with Zope.

Notes:

This visual guide has been created for sharing ERP5 practical experience.

It introduces a business case of ERP5 implementation at Infoterra, an EADS Astrium company. It focuses on the specificities of the ERP5 implementation at Infoterra and tries to highlight lessons to learn from this implementation.

This document is © 2008 Nexedi and © 2007-2008 Infoterra. All rights are reserved.

Modules/Overview

ERP5 integrates order management, shipment, supply chain management, warehouse management, invoicing, accounting, reporting and much more in a single system. It is fully based on flexible web workflows which can either be based on standard best practices or tailored to meet any business specific processes. ERP is extremly integrated and flexible thanks to a data model which unifies and simplifies business management through 5 universal concepts. It can be extended to support virtually any business application.

2. Base on this research the open-source(ERP5) it is used to modified the structures on how to create your own ERP. the developers shown us examples about ERP5, it is also introducing to help the company or your business.

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