Openbravo is an open source ERP solution designed specifically for the small and medium enterprises. Developed in a web-based environment, it includes many robust features that are considered part of an extended ERP: procutement and warehouse management services, project management, production management and financial administration. Openbravo features a web-based interface, where the user can view the entire status of a company, including production information, inventory, customer information, order tracking, and workflow information.
Openbravo grows with your Business
The correct administration of the data matrix of your company (products, customers, suppliers, etc..) is a core function to ensure consistency and tracking processes. The encoding performed exclusively, avoiding duplication and sharing information among all areas of your company, is one of the challenges faced today by organizations of every type and size. Openbravo helps you to organize and centralize the key data of your company, facilitating quick and easy flow of information between all areas involved in different processes of the company.
Openbravo managing the flow of purchases ensures the integrity, traceability and consistency of the process. Each document in the acquisition process is based on the information contained in a previous document, so that are avoided by the introduction of repeated data and human errors. This way, you can navigate through different documents that conform to a pre-determined flow (order, delivery receipt, invoice, payment) and know in real time ilo state of a given order (pending, delivered, partially delivered, invoiced, etc.). The natural integration of this process with accounting guarantees that the financial sector will always have updated data and some available.
The procedures for inventory management in Openbravo allow the inventory is always updated and properly assessed. The possibility of defining the warehouse structure of your organization to unit level (storage bins) facilitates the exact location at any time of your inventory. Additionally, the ability to handle lots of the product and the possibility of using serial numbers assure compliance with requirements imposed by tracking most industries.
Management of services and projects capabilities are geared towards companies whose activities are based on the realization of projects and delivery of services. With regard to projects, Openbravo allows the management of budgets, phases, tasks, expenses and purchases relating to each individual project. Activities can be control and monitoring of construction projects, expeditions, or sales and purchase related requests. The component of the services enables companies to define services and resources and to monitor all activities. These activities may or may not be billable, for internal or external customers and are monitored for unexpected expenses at a detailed level.
Equipment, production plans, BOM, MRP, manufacturing orders, employment relations, costs of production, impact of work, types of preventive maintenance, etc..
The features of production management and control of the facilities in Openbravo allow a complete definition of the productive structure of any organization (sectors, cost centers and machining centers) and the definition of all data related to production: production plans ( sequence of stages of production) and products used as components for the realization of finished products. Currently, the functionality provided by Openbravo is orientated towards the needs of a normal production environment analysis: planning and production demands are related to purchases through the MRP module, the creation of manufacturing orders, work relationships (notification periods and consumption of resources), the calculation of costs of production, processing and reporting of unexpected relationships maintenance.
Functionality of Openbravo in the form of administration of sales is specifically designed with the objective of allowing maximum flexibility and adaptability, as is necessary in any business process. You can link documents (orders, shipments, invoices) in the order that the company requires or even ignore any of these that is not necessary. All this is accomplished without sacrificing the consistency and integrity of information, ensuring the traceability of the processes. The integration with the acquisition of orders from PDAs extends the potential of the solution beyond the physical limits of the holding particular.
The functionality of Openbravo financial management is designed to minimize data entry manually, thus freeing the tedious and repetitive tasks and allowing the location on activities with higher added value. This increase in productivity is due to the operation of the finance department as a collector of all related actions generated by the other operating segments. All these have an automatic effect in the general accounts, in the timetable, the receivables and payables, as soon as they are generated.
Today, organizations generate lots of data in the execution of their economic activities. This does not necessarily mean that they have available the information necessary for proper management. The BI component of Openbravo, integrated into the management system, allows the monitoring of your company, providing the information needed for decision making, and allows subsequent stages of verification, through a series of key indicators to monitor whether the default strategy is correctly implemented in your organization.
Openbravo can also create and export reports and data to several formats, such as PDF and Microsoft Excel. As It is possible to synchronize information with other applications through the Java-based Openbravo API.
Openbravo is web based, it is possible to access the interface from anywhere an Internet connection is available.
