OpenPro Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software announces its latest release version 5

OpenPro is the leader in licensed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) using the open source LAMP technology. Version 5.0 has over 500 enhancements, many benefits for small to enterprise size businesses. Some enhancements are for our many international distributors that include new 9 language version, English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese languages are new available for distribution. "This new release is so OpenPro can expand our international Distributors" says President and CEO Jim Clark. Other new features include new menu system, new look and feel, built in communications module (fax, email, electronic, printed), business paperless workflow and document imaging. With version 5 OpenPro updated the executive desktop with flash graphics. OpenPro tries to use the best of the Open Source community offers, like LAMP technology, with version 5 we have phone and fax integration using proven open source products. OpenPro even has an interface to Asterisk FreePBX phone systems and Hylafax faxing software. OpenPro also has a few feature, create a screen with AJAX controls.

Organization like LAMP helps communities and businesses by making professional software available for the smaller organizations at a reasonable cost. Now small businesses can purchase software like OpenPro for less that half the cost of other traditional products..

OpenPro, Inc. a leader in licensed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software using open source LAMP technology. Version 5.0 has many benefits for small to enterprise size businesses. Some enhancements include new menu system, new look and feel, built in communications module (fax, email, electronic, printed), business workflow and document imaging.

OpenPro, which has delivered quick start business software to hundreds of American businesses since 1998, announced a version 5.0 of Easy ERP and Enterprise Software.

The software includes modules for finance (Payables, Receivables, General Ledger, Budgets, Check Recon, fixed assets, job costing), wholesale distribution (Order Processing, Inventory Control, Bar Coding, Retail POS. warehousing and purchasing), manufacturing (Bill of Material, Routings, MRP, MPS CRP), customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce. OpenPro even has interface to wireless portable terminals for manufacturing and warehousing.

OpenPro is the first to offer implementation options, bring in-house on a server, host with a hosting company or ASP or Software as a service. OpenPro being the first fully web based ERP software product is ideal ASP or Software as a service option for most businesses, because users only need a connection to the Internet to access the software, which runs on a computers worldwide.

OpenPro is first to have features built into ERP Software like built in document imaging. You can attach documents to most of the transactions within the OpenPro system. User customizable Work Flow is built into OpenPro to improve customer relationship and speed of transactions.

When you compare OpenPro with other software packages, OpenPro ranked highest in technical features and functionality. This evaluation compared OpenPro with Tier 1 Enterprise software packages like Oracle and SAP, Mid-level software companies like Microsoft Business Solutions and Best Software. OpenPro excelled in test with manufacturing software packages like Epicor, Macola, Made2Manage, Cincom, Jeeves, and JobBOSS. OpenPro also came on top with comparing ASP solutions like netsuite, and open source solutions like ComPiere. OpenPro customers have saved millions of dollars from converting from packages like these to OpenPro.

Because of Easy ERP software design, and OpenPro's Rapid Implementation Method, a business can be set up, trained and running OpenPro software within a day.

OpenPro is certified using US-FASB and international IASB standards, VAT taxing, Euro dollars Approved, Compliant with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) for public companies, APICS certified for inventory control, ISO 9000 Compliant, and FDA 21 CFR part 11.

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OpenPro ERP Software Information

OpenPro offers business software solutions for every company looking for more value and more features from their ERP solutions. Since 1998 we have been delivering Web-based ERP software solutions to small and mid-sized companies, and international enterprises.

OpenPro supports most industries with a complete ERP software solution. As a provider of manufacturing ERP software, OpenPro excels in its MES software and manufacturing inventory software. The financial accounting software supports a closed loop financial flow, and offers government accounting software.

Another of the many business software solutions is a complete retail POS system, while distributors benefit from the supply chain management software.

Because OpenPro is built using open source technology, both the initial purchase price and the ongoing maintenance expense can be half or less than Windows-based ERP software solutions, while offering a broader range of functionality.

OpenPro ERP is the first Web Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system available. Version 5 of our ERP software solution is flexible enough to run on any operating system and SQL database. As an open source erp solution, OpenPro software is a complete, solution that delivers outstanding value based on exceptional price/performance and functionality.

OpenPro ERP has a rules based design to help many industries. OpenPro is a complete end-to-end solution that includes Financials, Distribution (supply chain), E-commerce, Manufacturing and Customer Relationship Management. OpenPro incorporates a suite of integrated products that enables you to move seamlessly between all facets of your business, from order management to the plant floor to distribution.

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Lawson Software Announces 2007 Platinum Partner Award Recipients

Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN) today announced the inaugural recipients of the Lawson Platinum Partner Awards. Lawson created this new award program as a way to recognize outstanding business performance and productivity among its channel partners around the world. The awards are separated into categories including "best newcomer," "simpler is better," and regional "partner of the year" awards. Recipients of the Lawson partner of the year awards are:

- Americas region - Sigma S.A. (based in Chile)

- Europe, Middle East and Africa region - Groupe HELIOS (based in France)

- Asia Pacific region - Lawson Thailand (formerly Intentia Thailand)

- Best newcomer - Accentia Middle East

- Simpler is Better - Intentia Israel and Alfa-Beta Solutions (Netherlands)

The Lawson channel management team nominates partners for the Lawson Partner of the Year program. The regional partner of the year awards are based on the best performance in license revenue for software sales. The "Simpler is Better" award is based on the Lawson partner's ability to sell and deliver Lawson QuickStep solutions or other packaged, preconfigured offerings. The "best newcomer" award is based on outstanding performance by a partner that joined the Lawson partner network within the preceding 12 months.

"Lawson has established a highly strategic partner program over the last year, because we know we can deliver greater value to more customers around the world by having the right partners in place," said Brian Sterrett, vice president of channels and partners for Lawson. "We want to recognize and continually energize our partners - and this award program is just one way for us to do that. Our customers rely on us to have a partner network, which includes approximately 200 partners worldwide, that provides the kind of industry-specific expertise, combined with Lawson's industry-specific functionality, to help them meet their business objectives."

The partner awards will be presented individually to all award recipients, and the award winners will be recognized during the Lawson Conference and User Exchange (CUE) in Las Vegas in March 2008.

About Lawson Software

Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson's solutions include Enterprise Performance Management, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and industry-tailored applications. Lawson solutions assist customers in simplifying their businesses or organizations by helping them streamline processes, reduce costs and enhance business or operational performance. Lawson is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and has offices around the world. Visit Lawson online at www.lawson.com.

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Yaying Garment selects Lawson M3 fashion solution

Lawson Software announced the successful implementation of the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System for Zhejiang Yaying Garment Co. Ltd. (Yaying Garment), a Sino-Italian company specializing in fashion for women.

Yaying Garment designs, manufactures, and distributes women’s apparel in the People’s Republic of China under two brand names – Elegant Prosper and Elena Miro. Yaying Garment is a modern multi-branded business enterprise with 2,800 employees and an annual turnover exceeding RMB500 million. The company has plans to go global and will be exploring new markets in Southeast Asia, the United States and Europe.

On a mission to enhance its operational system for internationalization, Yaying Garment selected the Lawson M3 Fashion solution after considering a number of domestic and foreign enterprise software providers.

Yaying Garment required a system that can accommodate the demands of a diversified product range, low production volume per order, and the dynamic market trends inherent in the fashion industry. Other requirements included scalability, compatibility and advanced functionality of the enterprise software system for the company’s development in the long run.

The Lawson M3 Fashion solution supports enterprises on a full operation flow ranging from sales, marketing logistics, production, and finance through a platform with different applications that are fully integrated and highly compatible.

The Lawson M3 Fashionsolution can be implemented by a fashion company as a full enterprise software solution, or it can be implemented using a modular approach that can help simplify integration with other applications already in use.

Lawson worked closely with the team from Yaying Garment for eight months and successfully implemented the Lawson solution, centralizing the management of different parts of its operating process such as production, planning, procurement, inventory, and financial management.

The implementation team needed only to configure the workflow on the Lawson M3 system which helped keep the cost of implementation low and reduced risks.

“In the course of implementing the Lawson system, we moved away from transplanting the entire workflow from our daily operations, but focused on optimizing our workflow by considering carefully the actual circumstances that may affect the operations,” said Zhu Honggen, vice president and chief financial officer, Yaying Garment.

“For example, in ensuring a smooth operation, the workflow structure we adopted for our Lawson M3 system is based on ‘persons-in-charge’ approach instead of the conventional way of functional divisions in the company.”

Through the Lawson M3 implementation, Yaying Garment established within the enterprise a highly efficient and visible supply chain, and a common work platform that saw the following operational improvements:

•Establishment of a standardized product database;
•Creation of a smooth and efficient workflow;
•Setting up of a fully integrated supply chain system; and
•Integration of financial research and analysis systems.

Zhejiang Yaying Garment Co. Ltd. is a Sino-Italian joint venture engaged in the research and development, sales and marketing, information, logistics and production of women’s apparel under two flagship brands, Elegant Prosper and Elena Miro. The Company has an expanding network of over 300 outlets, adding 80 new shops per year.

Source : Fibre2fashion.com

SAP ERP Software Solution

Business Transformation Made Simple with SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning Software

Improve alignment of your strategies and operations. Enhance productivity and insight for your enterprise. That's the power you get with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from SAP – the power to adapt quickly to changing industry requirements.

SAP ERP addresses the core business software requirements of the most demanding midsize and large organizations – in all industries and sectors.

SAP ERP includes four individual solutions that support key areas of enterprise resource planning:

* SAP ERP Human Capital Management – Transform the role and value of HCM.
* SAP ERP Financials – Turn finance into a strategic business partner.
* SAP ERP Operations – Free up resources; budget for innovation.
* SAP ERP Corporate Services – Streamline business processes and costs.

- Features & Functions

SAP ERP redefines enterprise resource planning – delivering role-based access to crucial data, applications, and analytical tools. With SAP ERP, you can efficiently deal with business challenges in the following areas:

- End-user service delivery – Ensure that your employees can readily access the crucial data, applications, and analytical tools they need to perform all their job functions efficiently and effectively while also supporting a shared-services organizational model for human resources, finances, and other key processes. SAP ERP offers role-based access, self-services, and employee interaction center support through SAP Manager Self-Service, SAP Employee Self-Service, Duet and employee interaction center support.

- SAP ERP Financials – Ensure compliance and predictability of business performance – so your organization can gain a deeper financial insight across the enterprise and tighten control of finances. SAP ERP Financials automates financial and management accounting and financial supply chain management. The solution also provides rigorous support for corporate-governance mandates such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley.

- SAP ERP Human Capital Management – Optimize your HR processes with a complete, integrated, and global human capital management (HCM) solution. SAP ERP provides this HCM solution for organizations of all sizes and in all industries. You can maximize the potential of your workforce, while supporting innovation, growth, and flexibility. The SAP ERP HCM solution automates talent management, core HR processes, and workforce deployment – enabling increased efficiency and better compliance with changing global and local regulations.

- SAP ERP Operations – Manage end-to-end procurement and logistics business processes for complete business cycles – from self-service requisitioning to flexible invoicing and payment – optimizing the flow of materials. SAP ERP Operations also helps discrete and process manufacturers manage the entire life cycle of product development and manufacturing. The solution automates the entire manufacturing process and reduces costs by controlling and adapting the manufacturing process in real time – and increases customer satisfaction by delivering higher-quality products.

- SAP ERP Corporate Services – Helps organizations manage their most cost-intensive corporate functions by supporting and streamlining administrative processes in the areas of real estate; enterprise assets; project portfolios; corporate travel; environment, health, and safety compliance; quality; and global trade services. SAP ERP Corporate Services is a complete and integrated solution that maximizes transparency and control, while reducing financial and environmental risks and enhancing safety of employees. Performance management – Support the entire life cycle of performance management, delivering real-time, personalized measurements and metrics to improve business insight and decision making. SAP ERP supports financial analytics, operations analytics, and workforce analytics, as well as consolidated financial and statutory reporting; planning, budgeting, and forecasting, strategy management and scorecards, and risk management.

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meco join forces within technology experts RF-iT Solutions

Graz, Austria-based technology experts RF-iT Solutions and the meco group have signed a partnership agreement. The occasion was the RFID Journal LIVE! Europe, the largest RFID event in Europe, which is currently taking place from November 6 to 8 in Amsterdam.

“In the fashion industry, we are seeing a growing demand for RFID solutions and increasing interest in these products, which may be deployed in a large variety of ways,” Dominik Berger, managing director of RF-iT Solutions, stated.

The Graz-based technology company is a provider of RFID middleware and technology consulting services, products that support the interlinking of business processes, RFID technology and IT systems. To this end, the Graz-based software and technology company RF-iT Solutions has developed You-R OPEN, the world’s leading RFID operating environment which serves as a platform for system integrators. To date, reference projects have been successfully completed for Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH, Bültel, Otto, Windsor and gardeur.

Among the major drivers for implementing this innovative technology in the textile and clothing industry are EU regulations, globalized markets, broadly distributed supplier networks as well as growing complexity in the face of shrinking profit margins.

A number of pilot projects carried out with international partners have put RF-iT Solutions in a leading position in this market segment. “Our expertise clearly lies in the area of RFID software and technology. Yet, in order to be able to implement projects using RFID technologies that are feasible both in technical and economic terms, we rely on partners with profound process knowledge who have also grasped how to integrate RFID with ERP systems,” Berger explained.

Their most recent partner is the meco group of Germany, who specialize in IT consulting, infrastructure management services, RFID-based solutions as well as user help desk services and on-site support for the textile industry, retailers, SMEs and the health services sector. “The market is pushing strongly for RFID.

This technology will enhance the efficiency of many existing logistics processes, enable capacities to be increased and costs reduced. Particularly in this connection I appreciate the flexible concept embodied in You-R OPEN, which is especially suited for deployment in the retail and fashion segments.

To us, You-R OPEN ideally complements our array of high-quality services in the area of RFID, which build on the IT expertise and process knowledge amassed within the meco group,” Norbert Hofmann, CEO of meco Systemhaus AG, announced.

The meco group has been supplying IT consulting, management services, infrastructure management services, RFIDbased solutions as well as user help desk services and on-site support for the textile industry, retailers, SMEs and the health services sector since 1998. The meco group stands for quality when it comes to solutions in the areas of application service providing, managed services, retail software solutions as well as innovative leasing concepts.

Source : Fibre2fashion.com

Basic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Solution

The term ERP originally implied systems designed to plan the use of enterprise-wide resources. Although the initialism ERP originated in the manufacturing environment, today's use of the term ERP systems has much broader scope.

ERP systems typically attempt to cover all basic functions of an organization, regardless of the organization's business or charter. Businesses, non-profit organizations, nongovernmental organizations, governments, and other large entities utilize ERP systems.

Additionally, to be considered an ERP system, a software package generally would only need to provide functionality in a single package that would normally be covered by two or more systems. Technically, a software package that provides both payroll and accounting functions would be considered an ERP software package.
However, the term is typically reserved for larger, more broadly based applications.

The introduction of an ERP system to replace two or more independent applications eliminates the need for external interfaces previously required between systems, and provides additional benefits that range from standardization and lower maintenance (one system instead of two or more) to easier and/or greater reporting capabilities (as all data is typically kept in one database).

Examples of modules in an ERP which formerly would have been stand-alone applications include: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Financials, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Warehouse Management and Decision Support System.

Source: wikipedia.org