Many congratulations and thanks so much Simon for sharing your experience. Its really great to review such adoption stories, it surely serves as a great feedback too which helps planning future shape for the project. On 13 Nov 2014 20:34, "simon maskell" <simon_mask...@stannah.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I don’t often post on the mailing list but I was speaking to > one > of the committers at the weekend and they thought it would be good to share > our Ofbiz development with the community, with a view to getting more > non-ecommerce users using Ofbiz. > > We have been working with Ofbiz for 2.5 years and plan to rollout Ofbiz to > 5 > companies across 8 countries and a total of 1800 user. > > So far we have completed 1 company which comprises of > • Telecentre System and lead management > • Sales Orders > • Invoicing > • Product configurators > • CRM > • Human Resource > • Purchase Orders > • Stock Management > • Hand Held > > All of the above applications have taken the Ofbiz components as a starting > point and then we have extended and added our own customisations(some quite > heavily) to get Ofbiz working how we want it to. > Going forward we are looking to introduce > > • Service Management, this will allow us to make planned warranty > visits and > breakdowns. We have a network of 11 branches around the UK and 250 service > engineers out on the road. > • MRP – We manufacture in 2 different countries > • Installation Scheduling – We install our products and need a way to > optimise our installations team. > • We are also continuing to make changes to the current live Ofbiz > components, as we remove more of our legacy systems. > > Most of the above will be introduced into the remaining 4 companies and we > feel confident that each company/country will be quicker than the previous > as our code base builds up. > > My view on Ofbiz is that it’s a great product once you have taken time to > really understand it and its probably this that is the biggest barrier for > companies taking it up. When we first started looking at Ofbiz almost > everyone outside of IT was against it, we had to do numerous presentation > and explanation as to why we should go with Ofbiz as opposed to going with > a > product like SAP. Now we have got it working for one company and people > can > see the benefits, we are now being asked to delivery it into the business > faster(Now our presentations are setting expectation on when it will be > delivered) > > Anyone wanting to introduce Ofbiz, should be prepared for the difficulties > at the beginning of the project but I am sure by the end of the project > they > will be more than please they chose Ofbiz. > > Just like to thank all the committers and contributors who have worked on > producing a great product. > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Testimonial-tp4658168.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
