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Introduction to Business Applications
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The complexity of an ERP is usually due to the high number of available features. Most of the users of the system use only a few features, according to their job position(s) in the company. In order to remain easy to use, the different features are split into business applications.
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The main idea is that a user is often working in a particular context (working on a project, recording accounting entries). When he is in such a context, he should directly see all features related to this context (=business application). We try to create business applications according to user's position in the company: salesman, project user, purchasers, accountant, etc.
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OpenERP distinguishes between modules and applications. A module is a set of features packaged together for technical reasons. A business application includes all the features coming from different modules and creates a menu structure according to a specific role in the company. An application is usually composed of a set of modules.
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These business applications define a context of work and all terminology used in an application must be relative to this context, so that it's easier to understand : a purchaser will see screens adapted to purchasing operations. An accountant may see the same data, but in an accounting context. (adapted terminology, adapted menus, adapted default values in each screen)
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As an example, a purchaser will see the following menu on the left:
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Purchases
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Request for Quotations
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Purchase Orders
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