Open Source ERP solutions for Linux Ubuntu. Here are the five best ERP Systems for Open Source.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real-time and mediated by software and technology.
In general terms, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a process used by companies to manage and integrate the important parts of their businesses. Many ERP software applications exist to help companies implement resource planning by integrating all of the processes it needs to run a company with a single system.
ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software — typically a suite of integrated applications—that an organization can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from these many business activities.
ERP provides an integrated and continuously updated view of core business processes using common databases maintained by a database management system. ERP systems track business resources—cash, raw materials, production capacity—and the status of business commitments: orders, purchase orders, and payroll.
Best 5 Open Source ERP Solutions
ERPNext
ERPNext has been voted “World’s Top Rated Open Source ERP” by Gartner published “ERP Frontrunners”. ERPNext is an open source ERP, a full-featured business management solution that helps SMEs to record all their business transactions in a single system. With ERPNext, SMEs can make informed, fact-based, timely decisions to remain ahead in the competition. It serves as the backbone of a business adding strength, transparency, and control to your growing enterprise.
ERPNext will help you to:
- Track all invoices and payments.
- Know what quantity of which product is available in stock.
- Identify and track your key performance indicators (KPI’s).
- Identify open customer queries.
- Manage employee payroll.
- Assign tasks and follow up on them.
- Maintain a database of all your customers, suppliers, and contacts.
- Prepare quotations.
- Track your budgets and spending.
- Determine effective selling price based on the actual raw material, machinery and effort cost.
- Get reminders on maintenance schedules.
- Publish your website.
It can be used for:
- Accounting – Get a real time view of your cash flow. Full fledged accounting module covering every aspect of book keeping.
- HR & Payroll – Manage full employee life cycle right from onboarding, payroll, attendance, expense claims, assets to separation.
- Manufacturing – Effectively maintain & manage multilevel bill of materials, production planning, job cards & inventory.
- Sales & Purchase – Increase productivity and lower costs by managing your sales and purchase cycles, from purchase to sales orders
- CRM – Win and retain more customers by optimising sales process. Track leads, opportunities and send the quotes on the go.
- Projects – Deliver both internal and external projects on time, budget and profitability. Track tasks, timesheets and issues by project.
- Helpdesk – Deliver a better service experience with an intuitive issue tracker and integrated knowledge base.
- Asset Management – Maintain and Manage details of assets, their movement, value adjustment and depreciation.
- Website – ERPNext comes with a fully featured content management with blogs, web pages and forms.
ERPNext scales well from SMEs to even large enterprises. ERPNext is used by several retail chains in Africa as well as a highly regarded equities trading company in India with over a thousand employees.
Odoo
Odoo (previously known as Open ERP and TinyERP) is a complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. With 10.000+ apps in, Odoo covers all your business needs in a one-stop solution: no more interfaces between different software required. Odoo apps are perfectly integrated to each others, allowing you to fully automate your business processes.
With strong technical foundations, Odoo’s framework is unique. It provides top notch usability that scales across all apps. The open source model of Odoo has allowed us to leverage thousands of developers and business experts to build hundreds of apps in just a few years. Usability improvements made on Odoo will automatically apply to all of our fully integrated apps.
To be precise, they have developed 30 main applications which are regularly upgraded. In addition, our community of more than 1500 active members, have contributed another to 16000+ apps to cover a wide variety of business needs. With the “On-premise” offer, Odoo is the most installed business software in the world. It is used by over 3.700.000 users worldwide ranging from startup companies (1 user) to large enterprises (300,000+ users).
Odoo is actively maintained by a large base of developers to meet evolving customer needs and provide new, innovative applications.
Apache OFBiz
The Apache Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) is an open source enterprise software framework. Apache OFBiz is a suite of business applications flexible enough to be used across any industry. A common architecture allows developers to easily extend or enhance it to create custom features.
OFBiz is a Java based web framework including an entity engine, a service engine and a widget based UI allowing you to quickly prototype and develop your web application. It offers mature CRM & ERP solutions, an enterprise-wide ERP solution that is flexible enough to change with your business. OFBiz architecture is extremely flexible allowing developers to quickly and easily extend and enhance the framework with custom features.
Apache OFBiz comes with a range of core modules out-of-the-box (OOTB) including:
- Accounting (GL,AR,AP,FA)
- CRM,Order Management & E-Commerce
- Warehousing and Inventory
- Manufacturing & MRP
Apache OFBiz has a full set useful business features includes product & catalog management, promotion & pricing management, supply chain fulfillment and contracts, payments & billing.
webERP
webERP is a Web-Based ERP Software, a mature open-source ERP system providing best practise, multi-user business administration and accounting tools over the web.
webERP is a complete web based accounting and business management system that requires only a web-browser and pdf reader to use. It has a wide range of features suitable for many businesses particularly distributed businesses in wholesale, distribution and manufacturing. When combined with a 3rd party interactive desktop Point Of Sale system it can also form the hub of a dispersed multi-branch retail management system. A fully integrated webSHOP is also available as a 3rd party add-on.
webERP is as an open-source application and is available as a free download to use with all the PHP code written in an accessible way for you to add your own features as needed.
General Features – webERP
- Entirely web-based
- Runs on any web-server that can accommodate PHP – can use a professionally managed server of an ISP instead of having to purchase and maintain own server
- Minimal use of javascript for maximum compatibility with all web-browsers and web enabled devices. Some small amounts used to improve error-trapping and user interactivity.
- Produces reports to Portable Document Format – PDF for accurate positioning of text
- All reports and scripts follow the same conventions for consistent and modifiable PHP scripts, easily followable by business people.
- All processing is on the web-server with no installation required on client PCs – only a browser and a PDF reader is required.
- Multi-language – each user can see the interface in their preferred language – 31 are translations available and bundled with the system.
- Numbers are displayed appropriately for the language selected and input is allowed in this format.
- Fully utf-8 compliant. PDF reports produced using adobe CIF fonts for lightweight PDFs using utf-8 character set for any language.
- Multi-theme – each user can see the interface in their preferred graphical theme. A choice of 9 themes are available and bundled with the system.
- Can be integrated with a wiki (any wakka fork) to hold narrative on items, suppliers and customers. e.g. The wiki may contain any information particular to the customer with links to say credit history – call log for customer services/sales/accounts etc
- The underlying code of the system is written in a way so as to maximise it’s readability for those new to PHP coding. The idea being that business users will be able to administer and adapt the system to exactly suit their needs.
Open Bravo
Openbravo Commerce Cloud offers comprehensive omnichannel capabilities built on top of a highly flexible, mobile-enabled and cloud-ready technology platform. Openbravo helps retailers and restauranteurs deliver more innovative and personalized customer experiences across channels through cost-effective retail operations.
Using Open Bravo can help you to:
- INCREASE SALES AND LOYALTY – Increase customer acquisition and retention and boost your ability to launch new products
- IMPROVE THE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE – Create singular online and offline shopping experiences personalized for each customer
- OPTIMIZE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN – Maintain optimal target inventory levels to ensure sufficient stock is in the right place at the right time
- REDUCE IT COSTS – Gain greater agility and innovation capacity with lower IT costs
Apart from these above listed, there are many more Open Source ERP solutions, such as Compiere, PostBooks, Dolibarr, Tryton, metasfresh, opentaps, iDempiere and xTuple PostBooks.