[ic] Accounting?

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Dan Browning wrote:

> At 07:58 AM 8/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> Dan Browning wrote:
>>
>>> At 09:42 PM 8/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm curious to know how Interchange handles transactions. Is there any
>>>> ledger type accounting included?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Interchange does a lot, but it doesn't try to do all the accounting 
>>> (GL, AR, etc.) itself.  For Quickbooks, the extensions/quickbooks 
>>> directory in the tarball has been around for quite some time.  More 
>>> recently, Mike Heins has been working on a SQL-Ledger module 
>>> originally written by Daniel Thompson <danht@callthenet.com>.
>>> Checkout the latest 4.9 CVS to test that out.
>>>
>>>> If not, how difficult would it be to
>>>> integrate with a third party accounting system?  If anyone knows of 
>>>> any
>>>> open source Perl Accounting scripts, please reply.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SQL-Ledger is written in Perl.  I highly recommend another open 
>>> source accounting/ERP/CRM system, Compiere (http://www.compiere.org).
>>> Compiere developers are interested in integrating it with IC (its 
>>> about 50% down the TODO list), but it hasn't been started yet.
>>> Another option available to you is engaging a competent IC 
>>> consultant to integrate IC with whatever backend you want (i.e. 
>>> already use).
>>> There have been two integrations with MAS90, another via DBI::Proxy 
>>> (forgot the backend name), and many others I'm sure done by various 
>>> consultants.
>>
>>
>> Compiere does have a lot of promise, but the challenge is that it is 
>> not a ERP system yet as it hasn't any manufacturing or MRP systems at 
>> least as the last time I exchanged messages with the developer back 
>> in June...
>
>
> Well, you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.  ;-)  Not everyone 
> manufactures their own products, so it fits the definition of ERP for 
> a lot of people (and these days, everyone makes their own 
> definition).  But a funny twist is that (being an open source 
> project), someone is already working on additional MRP features:
>
> <quote Michal Materny>
> I am working on mrp with some elements of master scheduling. Alpha 
> stage is
> planned at november. Scheduling solution will be based on Preactor so 
> only interface
> will be provided by me.
> </quote>
>
> So you may want to look at Compiere again in a few months.  :-)  Cheers,

Hi Dan,

I meant no ill will with my comments, in fact the main man behind the 
project (Jorg Janke) was very interested in my manufacturing 
requirements, so I do know that it is a 'work-in-process' (pun intended) 
but I believe that even he would still admit that in the ERP sense, it 
has not yet been developed as there is no MRP, MPS, Integrated 
BOM/Routing/Costing (ie. Standard, FIFO, LIFO, Average)/Variances to GL, 
Cycle Counting, etc...  It more resembles a distribution system at the 
moment and for that I'm sure it does a fine job, we were just looking 
for a potential replacement for our cable manufacturing plant in 
England, I've had all of Sage I can take :-) ...

Regards,

Barry

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