Compiere – Create Customer
Customer will be the first master data object we will create in Compiere, followed by a product. Compiere, like many other ERP solutions, uses the Business Partner object as a superclass for the Customer object. That means that a Business Partner contains properties (like Name) that are common to several different other object types (Customer,Vendor,Employee), while each of these Business Partner “sub-types” contains additional specific properties. You can read the related Openbravo post to learn more about a Business Partner in open source ERP systems.
If you compare the create customer flash tutorial,you will immediately notice that Openbravo and Compiere are very similar in term of the underlying data model – they have almost identical objects structure. Since Compiere preceded Openbravo, it is reasonable to assume that Openbravo decided to adopt some of Compiere’s data structures to represent different objects (customer,product,vendor etc.). In fact, Openbravo explicitly declares it is using Compiere’s data dictionary.
Compiere – Create New Customer Flash Tutorial
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