ERP5 is a full featured high end software solution used for mission critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) / Customer Relation Management (CRM) / Material Requirements Planning (MRP) / Supply Chain Management (SCM) / Product Design Management (PDM) applications by industrial organisations and government agencies.
The software is based on the Zope application server. It is mainly developed in the Python programming language.
The preferred installation method for ERP5 is a LiveCD which is able to store all persistent data on a hard disk.
Key Features
- Customer Relation Management includes features to follow customer development, management of the relations between customers and other organisations, customer related incoming and outgoing events such as phone calls and email, sales opportunities, campaign management and meetings as well as a ticket tracking system for support requests and complaints.
- Production Management provides a transparent overview of products and the corresponding BOMs.
- Supply chain management.
- Product design management.
- Accounting provides multiple accounting features such as multi-key analytical accounting, multidimensional budget accounting, activity based accounting, project accounting, provisional accounting as well as asset- and cash management, generic reports and invoicing.
- Human Resources including Payroll.
- E-Commerce.
Website: www.erp5.com
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Developer: Mexedi
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

ERP5 is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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