Compiere - the smart open source ERP & CRM system

Process drives Design

Business processes rather than traditional departments drive Compiere's design. In today's world, and especially in small-to-medium enterprises, people often cover entire business processes or even multiple related processes.

Compiere provides all first tier functionality for small-to-medium enterprises fully integrated and easy to use.

If you’d like to see how Compiere’s functions relate to traditional business names like “accounts payable” or “accounts receivable”, click here.

Quote-to-Cash

Quote to Cash covers the business process for creating a quote for a prospect or customer, order management, invoicing and cash receipt. The functionality is highly integrated with Supply Chain Management and Customer Management. In traditional systems, you’ll find this in modules like order entry and accounts receivable. Learn more.

Requisition-to-Pay

Requisition to Pay covers the business process for creating requisitions, purchase orders, invoice receipt and payment processing. The functionality is highly integrated with Supply Chain Management. In traditional systems, you’ll find this functionality in modules like purchasing and accounts payable. Learn more.

Customer Relations Management

Customer Relations Management is not an independent module, but the logical view of all customer and prospect related activities. Customer management functions are an integrated part of the business process. Therefore, there are (in contrast to traditional CRM systems) no batch or synchronization processes for the back-office functionality. Learn more.

Partner Relations Management

Partner Relations Management links your partner constituents to each other allowing them to manage sales lead distribution, service requests, collateral distribution and marketing expenses. It also allows you to provide centralized services. Learn more.

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management covers all material management activities including inventory receipts, shipments, moves and counts within a client and its organizations and to suppliers and customers. Learn more.

Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis covers the costing and accounting dimension of the application. In traditional systems, you’ll find this functionality in reporting and general ledger modules as well as in those modules that generate accounting entries. Learn more .

Web Store

The Compiere Web Store provides all you need to run your web presence. The information handled on the Web is shared with the standard Compiere application, so no synchronization or extra integration work is required. The web store components can be customized to the look-and-feel of your web site. Learn more .

Why is it organized like that?

Business processes rather than traditional departments drive Compiere's design. In today's world, and especially in small-medium enterprises, people often cover entire business processes or even multiple related processes.

Here is a mapping chart as guidance: