Open ERP Odoo guidebook for small and medium enterprises
Devkota, Arun (2016)
Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016120719427
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016120719427
Tiivistelmä
ERP systems are vital part of any businesses, For SMEs managing accounting, sales, inventory control, manufacturing, customer relationship all at the same time is not a small task. To meet rising customer demand and market competition business must implement efficient ERP system. Implementing popular high end ERP systems like SAP Business One, Oracle ERP etc. are very costly for SMEs to implement as SMEs lack manpower and financial resources. The current ERP market is poised with various low cost ERP system but fail to deliver high end results. In such situation Odoo ERP is a widely used open source ERP run by the large community of partners and users.
The main objective of this thesis is to prepare an Odoo ERP implementation guidebook for SMEs. The main findings of this thesis guidebook is that it’s very important for any business to assess their needs, follow the implementation procedure and test different Odoo implementation options. ERP implementation with poor planning and documentation is an open invitation to failure.
In conclusion Odoo ERP is the cost effective open source software suitable for SMEs. Implementing Odoo has many benefits over big proprietary software vendor SAP business One.
The main objective of this thesis is to prepare an Odoo ERP implementation guidebook for SMEs. The main findings of this thesis guidebook is that it’s very important for any business to assess their needs, follow the implementation procedure and test different Odoo implementation options. ERP implementation with poor planning and documentation is an open invitation to failure.
In conclusion Odoo ERP is the cost effective open source software suitable for SMEs. Implementing Odoo has many benefits over big proprietary software vendor SAP business One.