Among the key new
features is a Kitting function to allow distributors to more
efficiently sell collections of items, as well as a Multi-Company
Financial Consolidation feature which allows companies or groups of
companies to report on a single consolidated financial statement.
“While the roots of xTuple ERP are in manufacturing, we’ve seen
enormous interest from distribution and retail businesses,” said Ned
Lilly, president and chief executive officer of xTuple. “Working with
our growing community of users, we continue to broaden the functional
scope of the world’s most advanced open source ERP system - while
maintaining the simplicity and ease-of-use for which we’re known
worldwide.”
The new Sales Order Kitting function enables users to sell kit items
on a sales order that automatically explodes to include shippable line
item components. The kit components are printed on the sales order pick
list, issued to stock and shipped, all accomplished without an
intermediary work order. The Sales Order Kitting functionality is
available in all editions of xTuple ERP, including the totally free
PostBooks Edition.
Other enhancements featured in xTuple ERP 3.1 include:
- Multi-Company Financial Consolidation, which allows users with a
multi-company chart of accounts implemented on separate databases to
report on a single, consolidated financial statement. The xTuple
Financial Reporting Engine synchronizes trial balances across these
databases, while child databases maintain company-specific trial
balance data and the parent database receives copies of the data from
each child.
- Average Costing, perfect for distributors and light manufacturers
requiring a streamlined, low-maintenance solution which does not
require periodic cost recalculations as does the standard costing
system.
- Sales Order Reservations by Location, which expands the existing
Sales Reservations functionality available in xTuple ERP to be able to
reserve quantities at the location level and print these location
allocations on a pick list, reducing the possibility of conflict where
items are stored in multiple locations in a warehouse but there is more
demand than supply in any one location at a given time.
xTuple ERP PostBooks Edition is the company’s entry-level offering,
available completely free and open source, and suitable for small
businesses of all kinds. It includes full financials; customer
relationship management (CRM); sales and purchasing; financial and
ad-hoc reporting; and lightweight inventory, manufacturing and
distribution. xTuple ERP Standard Edition is a midrange
commercially-licensed offering, which adds advanced inventory control,
warehousing, and other features to the core package. It is a good
option for distributors, retailers, light manufacturers, and anyone
else who would prefer commercially licensed software. The OpenMFG
Edition is the premium commercial offering, and is recommended for
manufacturing companies in both discrete and batch process production;
make to order, make to stock, or mixed-mode; even job shops and
engineer-to-order.
The PostBooks Edition is available free of charge under the open
source Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), and is consistently
ranked among the top ten projects on the SourceForge open source
download portal. The Standard and OpenMFG Editions are available under
xTuple’s innovative hybrid license, whereby customers and partners have
full access to the application source code, and any enhancements made
to the product flow back to xTuple for review, quality testing, and
possible incorporation into the baseline product.
All xTuple ERP products run equally well on Mac, Windows, and Linux
computers, and are fully internationalized with multi-currency, support
for multiple tax structures, and multilingual translation packs
maintained by the global open-source community. The company also
sponsors public discussion forums, a documentation wiki, blogs, and the
community issue/bug tracker.
