Subject : Production Planning

FrePPLe is an 8 years old open source production planning and scheduling application, aimed at

discrete manufacturers.

FrePPLe’s planning algorithms implement the best practice of theory of constraints (“plan around the

bottlenecks”), lean manufacturing (“avoid unnecessary inventory and waiting times”) and supply chain

planning (“ synchronize all actors in the supply chain”)

Compared to commercial tools in the same domain frePPLe offers an open and free alternative with a

lower cost of ownership, easy to customize and integrate in a company’s IT landscape.

Odoo FrePPLe Connector FrePPLe provides an integration with the Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP), a leading open source ERP.

The connector provides the following functionality:

Two-way integration.

Live data integration : The connector reads the data directly from odoo and writes the results back. Compared to

replicating data to its own database, this provides a more native and tighter integration. It is still possible to save a

copy of the odoo in the frePPLe database to use the frePPLe user interface.

Easy to customize: Implemented as an odoo addon module, it is easy to customize the connector to your needs.

Dolibarr ERP/CRM is a software package built by modules addition (you enable only features you need), to

manage small or medium companies, freelancers or foundations. We can say Dolibarr is an ERP or CRM (or both

depending on activated modules).

It's an OpenSource project base on a WAMP, MAMP or LAMP server (Apache, Mysql, PHP for all Operating

Systems). Dolibarr differs from other ERP or CRM softwares (like OpenAguila, OpenBravo, OpenERP, Neogia,

Compiere, etc) because everything was made to be more simple:

Simple to install

Simple to use

Simple to develop

Main modules Products and services catalog

Stock management

Bank accounts management

Customers, Suppliers or Prospects directory

Contacts directory

Commercial actions management

Orders management with PDF generator

Commercial proposals management with PDF generator

Contracts management

Invoices management with PDF generator

Payments management

Cont... Standing orders management

Shipping management

Support NPR VAT (for French DOM-TOM)

Foundations members management

Bookmarks management

Emailing

Agenda

Point of Sale

Donations management

Reporting

Data export tools

LDAP connectivity

A lot of other official or non official modules (AWStats, Bittorrent, Gravatar, Google, Webcalendar...)

The Microsoft Access database, called ERPlite, written for this small startup fits the inventory

management needs of small, entrepreneurial manufacturing companies. ERPlite's affordable solutions

are designed to be easy to use, and effective.

ERPlite has been evolved based on real customer needs since 1995, often using well tried code from a

customer. This "Open SERPlite was designed to meet the stringent requirements of medical device

manufacturing based on manufacturing management experience at (Nortel, LG, Philips Electronics,

Cedera, Visible Genetics and others).

FEATURES Advanced Manufacturing Inventory for QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise.

Track Serial/Lot Numbers within process and to Customer

Cloud Hosting

SQL Server/MySQL

Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP).

Track inventory by location, shelf, bin

Open Source

Shop Floor Control :: Routing Lists

COMPARISON OF THE THREE SOFTWARES

(Beginners Points)

POINTS OF

COMPARISON

USAGE PAID FREE FREE

TOUTORIAL ONLINE DEMO ONLINE DEMO MANUAL

USER FRIENDLYNESS FRIENDLY FRIENDLY NOT THAT FRIENDLY

WHEN COMPIRED

CUSTOMISATION AVAILABLE AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE

MODULES SALES, PURCHASE,

MANUFACTURING AND

DISTRIBUTION

SALES, PURCHASE,

MANUFACTURING,

DISTRIBUTION CRM

AND CRM

SALES,PURCHASE,

MNUFACTURING AND

CRM

FOREASTING AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE

POINTS OF

COMPARISON

DATA IMPORTING EASY EASY NOT EASY

INVOICE PRINTING AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE

CONSTRAIN

MANAGEMENT

DETAILED AVAILABLE & NOT

DEATILED

NOT AVAILABLE

INPUTS MORE DETAILED DETAILED LESS DETAILED

NAVIGATION EASY EASY NOT EASY