Enterprise grade Inventory Management solutions (SAP, Oracle, i2) costs many millions to purchase, same amount for installation and annual licensing? and maintenance fees .

If you are looking for cost effective solution,? Apache OfBiz is the best. As Jonathan pointed with minimum customization this can be deployed.

If you are looking for an immediate replacement for excel, vanilla version of Ofbiz just works fine..

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SAP?

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Sylvester DiDiego <[address removed]> wrote:

I would recommend that before you do IT solution selection, that you need to complete a high level requirements and business-data-location process mapping (business-location-data-goods-money flow) to better refine the user and data requirements.

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Many lessons learned from my former roles with design/deploy/operate of global end to end, cross border?eProcure/eSupply/JIT (integrated plan-order-ship-store-JIT-pay-IT systems).

The bear is not the IT, but the operations and processes.

What is the current correctness of current inventory control./reports? Quality control tagging/quarantine? Reverse logistics?

How much of the business processes have to be improved and people trained before you have reliable data and processes AND before you can begin data migration and testing?

What input tools do you need - bar coding, etc.?

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You want an ERP ( Enterprise Resource Planning ) software package , one that integrates with CRM ( Customer Relationship Management ) , SCM ( Supply Chain Management ) and SRM ( Supplier Relations Management ).

Those are the buzzwords you need to know.

There are vendors who provide it, as well as many open source projects. ?Probably the best one I've encountered across everything is Apache OfBiz , which runs on Java. ?While it's free, you'd probably want to hire an integrations firm to tailor the infrastructure, which will cost about $50k over 3-4 months. ?Alternately, you could hire in-house people to do that too... but it'll cost you double that based on skillset required.

OpenERP and Tryton looked good when I last checked the market. ?

If you jump on WikiPedia, you'll notice that PHP-MySQL is not the standard platform for these things. ?Most open source projects in this area are running on Java with Python and legacy Perl running behind them. ?Almost all of them target PostgreSQL and not MySQL. ??I'm not going to address the reasons why these platforms are the prevalent ones , because I don't want to start one of those advocacy flaming wars -- this is just a simple fact / status quo.

On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:06 PM, David Raleche wrote:

Hello all,

I have a client looking for a Web based Inventory Management application. The client has a fabric warehouse(more than 50,000 fabrics) and he'd like to implement a new and more efficient/effective way to manage his products. (The client is still using Microsoft Excel to manage his huge stock) and I want to provide a solution that is not too expensive but very reliable.

I'd like to know what type of software applications are in the market that manages this type of task. The client has a warehouse with full of fabrics. It would be great if the solutions would be?open-source or proprietary

Requirements of the software needed to accomplish the following tasks :

- Technology (Php-mysql)

- Email sent to our supplier when an item reach a quantity inferior to 25
- Email should be send to the fabric warehouse to alert them fabric?s arrival
- Email should be a template (date,order number, supplier name etc ?)
- Listing of all the fabric commanded/ordered
- When a request(command of new fabric) is made ---- packaging slip (FEDEX , DHL api) should be printable
- FEDEX API & DHL API will be integrated to the system?
- Create an interface for Agents, warehousemen, Managers
- Agent should be able to?
??1 create a request (order new fabric)
??2 to see the request already done
??3 not duplicate an order processed a week ago
- Managers should e able to see the listing of?
??1 Suppliers
??2 Orders processing/and not processing
??3 Agents history
??4 See all item sku below 25?
??5 Be able to suppress fabric Article/orders/ agents/warehouse(add delete)
??6 Reporting of the fabric ordered
- Warehouseman should be able :
??1 Print out a packaging slip(FEDEX)
??2 Modify the status of a request(sent, not sent, product already out of stock)

??3 See all item sku below 25?

- Application in the future should be able to manage barcodes (scanning barcode)

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Any advice or suggestions is highly appreciated.

Best,

David?

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