An essential and concise guide to understanding and implementing Compiere. Successfully implement Compiere, the leading open source ERP business solution, to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business Efficiently manage business documents such as purchase/sales orders, material receipts/shipments, and invoices A quick way to evaluate the Compiere software against your needs, or to get a prototype implementation to test with users or management Written in a clear and concise manner, this book follows a business model case-study example enabling you to learn about Compiere fundamentals and best practices along the way In Detail Compiere is a world leading open source commercially supported ERP system. Very large companies have already chosen Compiere over traditional systems. By its nature ERP is a complex subject and while you may be familiar with ERP this book will introduce you to the concepts of Compiere. Here you will learn the Compiere essentials quickly and concisely. The aim of this book is to get you up and running with Compiere through a practical hands on approach. This book will also give you an overview of the main Compiere business process aspects. This book will help you get comfortable with using and exploring the Compiere system as you prepare for a roll out in your organization. Maturing from an open source project to a leading edge competitor in the ERP space, Compiere offers what other traditional big name systems lack. Offering its best of class functionality on a model driven architecture, the latest enterprise platform independent web technologies (GWT, Java, JBoss, Oracle, Postgress), while maintaining openness, value, flexibility, scalability and most of all an integrated ERP platform that can be extended upon with ease. In this book we will introduce you to understanding Compiere functionality exploring the different essential business processes. We will