Summary

In this chapter, you have learned more about the sample business process cycle.

We started our discussion by looking at how to book charges that are incurred during procurement activities. To accomplish this task, we learned how to create a new instance of a cost element, saw an example of how to distribute these expenses by using the available cost distribution types, and also learned the distribution of expenses in detail.

We continued our discussion by looking at how to manufacture a product in this version of ADempiere by using the bill of material feature, involving both item and expenses type of products. After manufacturing the products, we created an offer letter for the customers. On receiving their confirmation, we raised a sales order document, delivered the product to the customer, and finally invoiced them. After performing these activities, we learned how to manage the payment (account receivable payment) and reconcile the transaction with our bank statement.

Towards the...