gEDA-user: ERP Systems

[Andy Peters]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Jeff VR wrote:

> I'm very interested to see how your evaluation turns out.  I  
> watched some of the demos of TinyERP and it looks like it will meet  
> my needs.  I'm not sure I need as much material management as your  
> looking for.  I'm mainly looking for something to track my limited  
> inventory of parts so I can run shortage lists, bill of materials,  
> part number management (dist. P/N, mfg P/n, desc, etc) before  
> building boards.
>
> Just blue skying here but it would be pretty sweet to synchronize  
> part numbers, desc, etc with the gEDA library and BOM output with  
> an ERP format.  Even importing and exporting BOM's and parts would  
> be slick.

Now that I've spent the last two nights with BOMs, trying to  
determine what parts I already have (by looking at the part bins) and  
what parts I need to order, I'd love to have the same thing Jeff  
wants.  I know there are commercial packages but none run on non- 
Windows platforms.

And to add to Jeff's blue-sky request, I'd like to be able to print  
bar codes and scan them using my iSight camera!

-a