Openbravo 3 Review

Product Snapshot

Technology

Web-based Basic and Professional Editions, on-premise open source Community Edition

Customer Focus

Small and Midsize Businesses

Select Customers

Megatelecom, Lavinia, First Influx, Isotrol, Huesker, Dalys

Customer Success Stories

Huesker, EmceePack, Lumiméxico

About Openbravo 3

Openbravo 3 remains focused on business agility and real ROI. The breadth of Openbravo’s ERP spans everything from accounting to warehouse management to business intelligence, and offers highly granular customization and module integration—making it the open source-based Swiss Army knife of ERP. With a rich developer community driving module creation and templating, Openbravo is ready for any industry and is specifically built for small and medium sized enterprises looking to increase profits, drive efficiency and scale success.

About Openbravo
With offices around the world, including the U.S., India and Spain, Openbravo is the global purveyor of the Agile ERP, a highly customizable, open source, SaaS-based ERP. With nearly 2 million downloads, Openbravo is a world leader in ERP solutions. All of its Basic and Professional Edition sales are handled by channel partners that offer quick, easy, on-site setup and region-specific configuration services. With 400 industry- and enterprise-tailored modules and growing, businesses choosing Openbravo are assured a continually evolving, always up-to-date arsenal of tools to complete any task the market throws their way.

Openbravo 3 Key Features

Master Data Management

Rates: Set applicable prices, price ceilings, and price rates and create filters and process flows for assigning prices to sales and purchasing
Transport (tied to business partner info)
Categorization of products
Product indexing: product types—item, cost, service—with tailored tools for all three; specific warehouse definitions for each product for optimal stock tracking; characteristics; product visuals
Freight segmentation
Measurement capabilities, unit conversions, variable weights
Materials tracking
Price lists: rate defining with differentiation and segmentation; Auto-generation of rates
Easy product substitution

Procurement Management

Integrated with warehousing and accounting
Communicate stock and usage data with suppliers via safe permission-based browser access
Requisition management: review purchasing by employee
Necessity-based production and purchase planning, in accordance with asset receipts dates, requisite stock levels, and requests
POs and rates applications: discount and price configuration; correction of orders; auto-generation of POs from sales orders; vendor efunding
Auto-create receipts from pending order lines; Automate prioritization of receivables
Purchase invoices; invoice goods processed in consignment

Warehouse Management

Multi-site warehousing and storage binning
Multi-unit stocking of products (e.g. pounds and boxes)
Fully customizable product attribution (color, size, etc.)
Lot numbering, bundling
Inventory planning, continuous inventory
Configuration of traceability by product
Robust reporting capabilities

Project and Service Management

Project typing, phasing and tasking
Project based expensing
Registration of services
Internal expenses
Expense invoicing
Project-cost-based historical salary segmentation
Templates and automation for made-to-order
Invoice to origin

Production Management

Plant structuring
Incident management
Intricate departing/arriving production plans
Sequence creation and order phasing
Cost centers/HFG’s (Homogeneous Functional Groups)
Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)

Sales and CRM

Order docs: estimates (considering goods reserves), standards, warehouse auto delivery records, POS with auto generation of delivery/invoice
Automation of outgoing orders (prioritization by shelf life, region, etc)
Invoice registration; customer risk notices, invoice canceling
Mass document printing
Email integration
POS integration

Financials and Accounting