In the first article we mentioned the main characteristics that should have a software to be used as a Front-End with some functions of an Enterprise Resources Planning ERP:
and we used the Lotus Notes example, but in principle will be possible to use other softwares with similar functions.
Now we will see a practical case, a system to detect and control - marketing, sales, new purchase orders - your aground products. As we know, the salesman prefer to sold new products only, and your aground products will be less and less sold.
We assume that your company already have an online managerial/accounting system, with evidently its own database.
1. We will use a method to transfer your managerial/accounting data to the Notes relational database, and although this last one has tools for that - ODBC for example - we recommended the purchase of a specific software for that purpose in order to be more flexible and with more powerful features, that must allow the following transfers:
Normally this kind of software works with the following databases - and this probably include the database type used by your company:
ALLBASE/SQL, Btrieve, Clipper, DB2, dBASE, Excel, Gupta SQLBase, IMAGE/SQL, INFORMIX, INGRES, InterBase, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft FoxPro, Netware SQL, Oracle, Paradox, Progress 6, SQL/400, SQL/DS, Sybase, Teradata, Files text, XDB, and also the databases types ODBC, client/server and desktop, etc.
2. We will decide what fields from your managerial/accounting system - here so called of dbCompany - you need in your new ERP. We can, for example
3. We will decide if we need data transcriptions and/or data conditionally computed. A simple example would be the need - in Notes - to generate the resulting information x of the data y,k,z from the dBcompany.
4. Summarizing the above functions Second and Third - about each different product we need from your dBcompany:
5. We acquire - extract - those data, to be placed in specific Notes fields, and creating the Notes "Views".
We will continue in the next article.
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