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[Pieter van der Merwe <pietercvdm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does seem to be a "chicken or the egg" situation.  You
need customers/funding to build a proper manufacturing module, but you
won't get manufacturing customers without a proper manufacturing module.

Our company walked away from OpenERP for our main ERP since we are a large
manufacturing company.  We won't bet our company on OpenERP 'maybe' pulling
off a manufacturing module if we funded it.  Then there is of course the
risk of being first on an new(/untested) module.  Adempiere on the other
hand has a very comprehensive manufacturing module and seeing that it is
open source, you could maybe learn something from how they approached it.
 Looking at Adempiere it does seem like there is one expert in the group
that contributes most if not all of the manufacturing code at his own pace.
 Contributions does speed it up of course.  But it does seem that he is
very committed to building a world class manufacturing system.

My 2c worth.  OpenERP needs a proper manufacturing module (MRP/MRP2).  I
personally think this is more an OpenERP S.A problem since it relates to
core functionality.  Somebody will need to do the initial big contribution.

Kind Regards,
Pieter

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Eric Caudal <eric.caudal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hi Geoff,
> Thanks for the contribution. Financing is important but does not actually
> need to be money but as well dedication and HR that you can allocate. Today
> unfortunately we do develop some modules but I cannot afford to be
> contributing alone in such a dense project (hence my call for contribution).
> Having OpenERP s.a endorsement is obviously a must but will come IMO only
> when a consequent group of partners feels the need to work together as an
> Expert group and contribute actively on advanced functionalities with a
> certified code.
>
> So far though, there seems to be no real will from the partners or
> community to fill in the gap (very few feedback) which makes me wonder:
> - Maybe this is not really necessary?
> - Maybe the fear that contribution will help competitors is too strong?
> - Maybe partners prefer to keep their knowledge in order to justify their
> business model?
> - Maybe we are not so many people to actually use advanced manufacturing
> concepts?
> - all of them or any other reason
>
> I would probably vote for the 3rd one ;)
>
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> On 06/11/2012 12:13 AM, Geoff Gardiner wrote:
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 2 June 2012, Eric Caudal wrote:
> ...
>
>>  In our region (Shanghai area), we have the need for advanced
>> manufacturing features ....
>> ...
>> Any thoughts?...
>>
>>  FWIW, I think that there is scope for expert groups to take on aspects
> of OpenERP (Manufacturing, for example), in the same way as OpenERP itself.
> So you may take on manufacturing, and hope to be endorsed by OpenERP
> itself, and hope not to be overtaken by a fork of the project. Then you
> would need funding, like OpenERP itself, or the endorsement and time of an
> independent group like a University - that may already be seen to be expert
> in the area that interests you.
>
>  If you don't get the endorsement of OpenERP you might choose a specific
> version of OpenERP - or you might keep to 'the latest version' whichever
> that might be. If you're running the Manufacturing (say) group you could
> set your own policy about documentation.
>
>  And if you were to be overtaken by other groups you could choose to take
> their code into yours (if the licence enables that) or to give up or to
> redirect to another project entirely - that's Open Source for you !
>
>  All the best,
> Geoff
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
>  Geoff Gardiner
>
>
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