Open Source Strategies

A blog about open source software and business models, enterprise software, and the opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Suite.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

New screens for creating purchase orders in opentaps

If you have been using opentaps 0.9 or 1.0, you should find the new screens for creating purchase orders in the upcoming version 1.4 much easier to use.

First, the screen for initializing purchase orders has been streamlined. Instead of having to go through two screens to select a supplier and agreements, there is now one screen to do both:Second, when you're adding items to your purchase order, there is now an auto completion which it to prompt you for a product based on either the product ID or a portion of the product name


If the product has not been set up already with a supplier entry in the catalog manager, opentaps 1.4 will let you still add it to your order:
Finally, to create your purchase order, there is now just one screen for setting the terms of your purchase order and selecting a shipping destination:

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