PostERP 2.6 released

PostERP is an ERP software system driven exclusively by PostgreSQL.

Features:

- It runs MRP (material requirements planning).
- It supports FIFO, LIFO, and moving average costing methods.
- It processes costs for items and lots (or serial numbers, footwear sizes, etc.) stored in bins, warehouses, work centers, etc.
- It is currently for manufacturing industry. Authorized customers can enhance features and even alter it for utterly different industries.
- The accounting module uses only one segment of account codes (the bundled sample account codes is 4 digits) and keeps track of item codes, lot codes, warehouse codes, customer ID's, supplier ID's, employee ID's, billing notes numbers, etc. Verbosely embedding meanings in multi-segment account codes is depreciated.
- End users from accounting department define templates for various financial reports and run them without IT people's involvement.
- It currently provides 68 data-entry forms (screens) and 45+ reports (templates).
- It provides comprehensive on-line helps in various languages.
- It comes with 2-tier and 3-tier computing architectures.
- Client program requires no installation: Double click on .exe and run ERP system.
- It is multilingual. Users maintain addresses, item descriptions, customer and supplier names, etc. in multiple languages simultaneously.
- It uses one PostgreSQL database and schema and separately processes unlimited number of companies while users maintain only one copy of globally shared data such as items, BOM, account codes and descriptions, customers, currencies, exchange rates, etc.
- Users patch database on-line using the same client program to upgrade to new versions.
- Authorized customers create new data-entry forms without the need of writing code.
- Authorized customers code SQL select command and design report templates in drag-and-drop way to create more reports and seamlessly merge them to the existing GUI.
- The sizes of client programs, fat.exe or tc.exe, are under 2MB after compressed and nearly do not grow regardless of the expansion of the business logic.
- The report engine, packed in the 2MB client executable file, supports groups, number formatting, bar code printing, saving reports as MS Excel sheets, pivot reporting, both graphic and dot-matrix printers, etc.
- It is in essence a design-once-and-use-everywhere framework in that all business logic, including data-entry forms, report templates and SQL texts, on-line helps, user defined functions...etc., are stored in PostgreSQL and used worldwide with the thick or thin GUI client programs.

Limitations:

- Client program and application server run only in MS Windows and mostly in WINE (http://www.winehq.org).
- Only English and Chinese translations are available at present time.
- It calculates MRP using regeneration method. Net-change method is not implemented, yet.
- The MRP calculation assumes resources are unlimited.

Free edition with capability limitations is available for download without the need of registration at
http://www.sitig.com

Best Regards,

CN Liou