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Why you consider Odoo ERP (OpenERP) system for your business requirement

ERP (Enterprise and Resource planning) that provides business with the information necessary to effectively manage their business processes. In other words, a fully integrated software system that helps overall business operation planning and reporting.

ERP enables agility by connecting information from everyone every department and every process throughout your entire enterprise. This means up to the moment seamless communication an accurate picture of your valuable resources and the right tools for better project planning.

  • SAP business one, Microsoft dynamic, and oracle e-Business suits lead in ERP but there a plethora of other reliable options to consider like Odoo.
  • The things are not pondered over feature and functionalities of management software. It touches the only surface and you may end up with the wrong choice.
  • When it comes to deployment, it means not only having an ERP management platform but the right one. A software solution that addresses any challenges faced in your business processes.
  • You need to research these aspects when you are searching for an ideal ERP, CRM or management solutions.
  • Even though you are dealing with your business operations manually, you may still be unaware of some core activities. It is better to start over and look at things from a fresh perspective.

You must find areas in your business where an ERP software could benefit and then deploy appropriate solutions. By identifying the goals of your company you could option for ERP solution that compiles with it.

Besides, there are several notable things that you need to consider:

  • Affordability:  Yet another pivotal feature you need to look in an ERP solution is “cost”. If you are growing business then cost is determining factor to look for. Investing in affordable ERP solution give back more value. Budget-friendly ERP solutions are aimed at small and medium businesses, which contain a suite of essentials aimed at a small multitasking workforce.
  • Cover functional requirements: The ERP must include all the basic operations that most businesses require such as accounting. When you select one it is important to check whether it has the functional requirements that your business need. By analyzing the functional side, you could know what your requirements are and whether the selected ERP offers them.
  • The Flexibility of the Platform:  An ERP with the flexible platform is highly recommended since you need to cover both the present and future requirements of your business. Having an ERP with a grid framework prevent any form of expression which can hinder the growth of your business. Meanwhile, a flexible platform can easily adapt to your changing business needs and allows customizations.

When you have an option for ERP, it should adopt to your working environment and not the other way around. An ERP solution that forces you to redesign the processes in accord with its framework can further complicate the implementation process. Moreover, it adds to the overall operational costs that come from shuffling the existing method and reorienting personnel.

You never have to weave your processes and frameworks with ERP like odoo. Readily integrate odoo without any hindrance and implement right away. Swift navigational features combined with its powerful functionality gives you more control over the key business process by simplifying it to drive efficiency and productivity in your organization.

Odoo comes with a set of features that clearly distinguish it from every other ERP. The presence of modules helps carry out changes without interfering with the codes. In this way, it can adapt to the growth and scale of operations of your business.

Odoo clearly fits in the descriptions of an ideal ERP software. It is affordable, flexible and comprehensive which is what every business whether small or large needs. If your business requires integration in HR to deal with your workforce or across different applications such as POS or warehouse management, odoo can simplify the process and keep you in control.

The intuitive user interface, cutting-edge technology, and reduction in overall costs also differentiate odoo. The competitive pricing allows you to explore by choosing different modules and finding out whether it derives the benefits proposed and addresses your needs.

With an all-inclusive ERP solution like Odoo, you need to ponder over whether your business fits in with odoo’s framework. Odoo can easily mold in with your needs and wrap it in the frameworks and processes that you utilize in your business to fit without ever changing anything. 

Odoo takes ERP one step forward with its a suite of applications designed for managing business processes with ease. It is all in one management software tailored to enterprise requirements in mind.

What makes odoo stands apart from the rest is its ease. affordability and modularity. Your business whether it is small-scale or large can deploy odoo right away without any hassles.

Here @Silent Infotech we develop & implement highly end-to-end Business Solution which is configurable and adaptive customized as per your business process/workflow on top of the well known open source ERP, ‘Odoo’ (formerly OpenERP).

Odoo being open source ERP software it avails the flexibility to company to contract out the analysis, customization, implementation, hosting or support to agencies/companies from many such companies based on cost-effectiveness & quality deliverability.

 We have a dynamic team of ODOO technical developers and functional consultants to facilitate ODOO integration and customization needs. We work in synergy with our clients and provide end-to-end ODOO ERP solutions, customization, implementation and support.

Some other Benefit of choosing ODOO (OpenERP)

  • Odoo allows implementing professional and specific ERP solution for any business.
  • The open-source model allows flexibility in operational workflow and unlimited extensibility.
  • Cost-effective in customization, hosting & support as no locking with any single provider.
  • Cloud-based software with remote access based on the web.
  • Multiple modular architectures
  • Easy to install
  • Odoo has a centralized database that supports existing apps
  • Odoo being well-known & opensource is being implemented by 50,000+ business.
  • In terms of functional broadness vs. easy usability, it is considered far ahead among available competitive solutions.

How to choose best Odoo implementing team?

  • Odoo is open source & well-known ERP solution, there are always multiple implementation agencies a company can contract with. Hence choosing the right team is important for how fast and ease the overall ERP implementation goes with that Agency.
  • Choose the Team that has prior experience in implementing specifically Odoo based ERP as there are chances that you hit any web development agency.
  • The team should first analyze the business process before proposing the system, that shows the availability of business analyst people in the team and not just software programmers.
  • The analysis or initial talk should consider the data migration from the old information system as part of the overall implementation roadmap.
  • Agency should have the availability of after ERP Implementation Training and support services for business employees.
  • Odoo ERP hosting services requires little expertize for enhancing server security, optimizing the performance, backup strategy, etc. Hence if the company has the in house server administration team will be added advantage.
  • The team should have Data migration capability and data migration phase should reflect in their proposed deployment roadmap.

Silent Infotech Team as a specialized Odoo ERP development & implementation team masters in doing all the above-mentioned skills & approach. So if you are looking for and ERP implementation discusses with us as a free consultation for your ERP software requirements and we’ll propose you the best.

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RFID and IoT – A better vision for the Seafood Industry

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SEAFOOD FRESHNESS

  • Fish should smell fresh and mild, not sour or ammonia like,a fish’s eyes should be clear and shiny.The shrimp should not smell like bleach or ammonia, it indicates the growth of bacteria.And in the case of lobster,it should not be soft like cottage cheese or have a pungent odor. These are the basic tips that one should keep in mind while buying any seafood.But many people are unaware of these aspects and that leads to serious repercussions.

  • So here question arises why the freshness of seafood an important factor?The study estimates that approximately 55,000 cases are reported annually due to the illnesses — that are caused due to consumption of bad seafood .
  • In this article, we are going to review our creation on the RFID Technology. We have created the AI based Seafood supply chain ERP where the seafood supplier can track and trace the freshness and quality of seafood.

HOW OUR TECHNOLOGY WILL ELUCIDATE THIS PROBLEM ?

IoT Sensors :

We are using the IoT sensors for Water Quality and measurement of environmental conditions including temperature, Humidity, Air Flow etc. It will offer an instance alert on your mobile phone! 

Water quality sensors :

  • It monitors pH, temperature, NH3 and NH4 of the tanks where the seafood is stored.
  • It provides the facility to view the critical parameters of the water quality in real-time from your electronic device.
  • It is also equipped with the notification services that indicate when parameters are trending towards thresholds or breach parameters.

Environment sensors :

  • It offers real time temperature and humidity monitoring. 
  • Sensor being used in Cold chain logistics can offer real time monitoring & trace-ability. The temperatures in these transportation vehicles should be kept favorable according to the species.
  • It gives us the access to Dashboard to monitor these sensors. 

 

 Trace-ability through RFID technology : 

 WHAT IS THE ROLE OF ‘RFID TAG’ IN OUR TECHNOLOGY?

  • In this process, the harvester catches the seafood from the sea bed and brings it at dockside.
  • After reaching the dockside, the harvester puts all the species in the crates as per the capacity of a particular crate.
  • At the dockside, the harvester sells his catches to the sea food processing company through an agent (called as tagger) of the company itself.
  • The  RFID Tags are solely identified which allows to scan the items in a bulk quantity rather than each bar-code individually.
  • These RFID tags are placed on the crates at the dockside by the tagger.
  • The introduction of RFID tag eliminates the use of papers as the data is entered directly with the help of handheld devices.
  • The information is automatically uploaded to a cloud database. This means that workers in the head office have access to this information in real time and can plan accordingly for production and payroll functions.
  • The wireless printers are placed at the dock locations in order to print the receipt and the harvesters are on their way in just one click.

How to prove the freshness to Seafood?

  • The processor company can track the item’s check-in/check-out time and also can view the exact location of the item by entering the RFID code in the device.

TRACE-ABILITY DASHBOARD VIEW :

Payroll and Accounting management :

  • In this user can manage the salary structure of the employees.
  • It refers to the administration of employees’ financial records including salaries,wages,bonuses,deductions and net pay.

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PAYSLIP :

“Driving the intelligent enterprise with – the digital supply chain”

                                                    

 

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Odoo studio Limitations

Odoo studio allows you to customize the user interface with very limited programming knowledge. It allows to write some Python code as well but a very limited portion of features can be customized from there. Here are the areas and industries where it will not work or somehow will create hurdles,

  • Nothing you do in odoo studio can be used in the community edition of odoo.
  • for all many enhancement to odoo 12, there are major weaknesses associated with recording custom odoo applications.
  • Because of the way you develop with odoo studio, it can again be very tough to control processes inside production installations.

Highly Customized business process

If your current business process if highly customized or proprietary to your owned business then generic ERP process may not work for you well and can turn into confusion for your employees.

Manufacturing Process

This is the main area where the Odoo studio will not work because of complicated processes. E.g. if you are looking to execute the work order in different stages and at the similar time you need some task order to go to the near stage after a real amount of time, it should be possible to customize

Import/Export of data

The migration will really not useful on this area, we have recently viewed an issue of importing work order and so the customer has had to change to the on-premise odoo
When you migrate from another system, your import process requires a high degree of customization and for that, you will need a full path to the Odoo backend system to write Python code.

Same way, you can not customize the export process very well.

Crons and Schedulers

Because you have restricted access to the Python//backend system, you can’t write crons very well and can’t automate many methods you want.

Ownership of the Data

The hosted answer limits the control of your data to the Odoo itself. However, they have a reliable cloud but if you want to keep the data completely, you will have to sort of premise Odoo that means, self-hosted Odoo. That doesn’t expect that you will have to choose some odoo partner to host your odoo on their support, you can have your private leased server from any provider and you can host it there.

At Silent Infotech we recommend going for either On-premise community or on-premise Enterprise. It’s a myth that it is hard to manage the on-premise odoo instance. We have Odoo special cloud and infrastructure in place to host on-premise odoo with the full power of customization.

We are a leading provider of ERP/CRM services, we provide advance initiative technology

Our team of experienced and dedicated developers has enough talent tons of experience in developing software products and solutions.

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ERP solutions and Integrations based on OpenERP

We at Silent Infotech create a solution that enables the business, organization, and startups with perceptive design and innovative technology.

ERP system is a major need of any business and we have establishes odoo ERP solution to suits your business. We guarantee you that the ERP module excellently customized and cleverly implemented. Here we will give you the warranty for methodical formation, secure data service and the facility of the configuration.

Our odoo specialists are able to deliver you the scalable, adaptable and guardian solution. Our odoo solutions can help an existing Magento store. By the new odoo integration feature it is manageable inventory, integrate sales orders and POS and deliver faster results.

Here in silent infotech, our experts offer stellar service integral to your business.

Our Services as ERP system Solution

In silent infotech, we provide you the odoo ERP service with some advance innovation.

  • We provide the hosting, installation, implementation. Configuration and support.
  • We can customize the odoo module with business specific needs.
  • Training and support for business employees.
  • Odoo based solution and e-commerce system maintenance.
  • Data migration.
  • Seamless odoo integration of existing business processes.
  • Odoo has a centralized database that supports existing apps.
  • Comprehensive troubleshooting, support, and maintenance.

Our Odoo ERP innovations

(1) Odoo Middleware 

Odoo middleware is a core engine to serve as a RESTful interface to the third party applications on the behalf of Odoo.

Benefits

  • This wheel has been invented to keep the centralized routing of the calls from all the third-party applications.
  • Mobile apps can be kept very lightweight in terms of code and all the business logic can be handled on the server side hence apps can perform well.
  • It will provide a universal interface to VOIP applications, Thermal printers, POS devices, IoT Devices which are obvious components to be integrated with Odoo.
  • Almost all the customization will survive the version upgrades of Odoo.

(2) Royal mail integration

Odoo module integrating with royal mail shipment service.

Royal Mail serves as biggest postal services in the United Kingdom having a rich set of API and strong authentication mechanism.

Odoo has been integrated with RM-Royal Mail APIs in order to fully automate the process of label printing and shipping. It has been several years since industry seeking such an automated process to reduce the efforts and focus on main business.

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(3) Payfort Payment Gateway integration

PayFort is the Most Trusted Online Payment Gateway in the Middle East because of the local currency support and local technical support. They have clients from various industries and who are industry leaders in the Middle East like Souq.com and Carrefour UAE.

Our Payfort payment gateway module leverages odoo’s architectural modularity to provide the Merchant Odoo system an integrated payment processing functionality. This type of integration allows the Merchant’s Customer to check-out on the Merchant’s payment page without being redirected to external sites and thus enjoy the seamless User experience.

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(4) Zimbra mail integration with odoo

Zimbra an email collaboration suite has more than 500 million trusted users worldwide. Here in silent infotech, we provide consultation, implementation and migration services with support for your Zimbra email solution.


(5) Open cell integration with odoo

Absolute integration of two giant financial systems in order to achieve smooth migration without any extra migration cost! Established fully IFRS compliant accounting system for a telecom giant XGate

Similar integration for odoo and quickbook accounting/bookkeeping system has been achieved as well.

Our recent achievements

Cloud-based ERP for Radiofrequency

we have built cloud-based ERP system for Radio Frequency industries. it is capable to take care of end to end process of Sales, Purchase, Inventory and warehouse management. It also includes the manufacturing process.

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allows you to manage inventory with multiple warehouses and multiple locations.
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AI-based Seafood Supplychain

our AI based seafood supplychain ERP provides real-time traceability of seafood and where the seafood supplier can trace and track the freshness and quality of seafood. We are providing supply chain planning, supplier scheduling, product configurator, order to cash, purchasing, inventory, warehousing, and shipment Read More

Kare Portal – The cloud-based Electronic Health record system

Cloud-based Electronic Health Records System (EHR System) for seamless integration between and Patient, Doctor and Pharmacies with the secure channel.

The patient portal, Doctor’s portal, and Pharmacy portal are three main components on the same platform. Read More

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How to Automate iOS Push Notification With Firebase Cloud Messaging

What is Push Notification?

Basically,  a push notification is an alert that pops up on the smartphone that prompts you to do something the calls you to action it allows you to speak directly to app users the right time and at the right place.

Push notifications are a way that if you have users who have installed your app haven’t used in a long time, as the way to reach out to them.

It’s also a way to just send notification to people, whether or not they have your app open or not and in terms of clients that use it for the alarm and stuff to notify their staff or certain things and it’s kind of thing which we have not used in our own apps, but we have used it for a lot of client apps.

How Do Push Notifications work?

When you set the push notification you basically, like for apple you would set up for your i-phone, you have to give it push notification entitlement and you also have to set up the certificate and you have to do the same thing with Firebase cloud messenger or FCM network.  

So you have FCM or the APN as apple push notification services.

First, open up your application and if registered it with those, it will automatically go to those services and register and then the user will be asked “do you want ear spy to be able to send message” and you say “Yes” or “No” and it gets a token back from them.

Now for a lot of the apps that we have done, at the point, we have to hold on that notification because that its own doesn’t really help anybody.

You need to be able to have a way to push those messages to them, and lots of times that means you have your own server.

Some of the application that has done for in the past, it would be like, they open up the app, the user opens up the applications, it goes to either APNs, or the FCM networks and windows has their own too.

It goes to those token and it comes back with that token and then you could take that token and then you could take that token and wait until they login or register and once they do that, at that point you can associate that user with that push notification or if you don’t care who the user is and you just broadcast everything to everybody or based on location or whatever you could do it before asking their details.

So the point, you can take that token along with the log-in details and put that to your server and then at that point you can have your own server send the notification to the APNS or the FCM and then that handles sending it to the user.

This kind of flow the way that it goes and gets a bit complicated.

If you have a cross-platform app like saying it’s available to the user on android and on iPhone you have to think about which phone are they actually using.

For example:

Everytime user would log-in we would take that last push notification things and we would overwrite a single field in the database and we have to say if it was android or iPhone.

So for people who had a tablet and a phone if they registered with their phone first and then their tablet the phone would no longer get the push notification and associating any multiple devices with that user.

Now there are lots of services out there take care of it for you. There is firebase, airpush, Amazon has one called SNS – Simple Notification Services which they take all that complexity away for you, managing who belongs to what.

Microsoft Azure has one called “notification hub”.

A lot of things that we used and they seem like a bit of overkill because you don’t really need them and a lot of times they will charge, but it’s usually really low.  

You can use with multiple chat applications, so let’s say mona is on the phone and Chris wants to send a chat to his friend who also has the app installed, Chris’s could select him, send the push notification that would go to the server, the server would see his friend and that would look up the friends token ID, lookup the send message to the apple push notifications ot the FCM and that would send it back to his phone.

In terms of marketing, people have used push notifications in terms of marketing, because theoretically, person have thought about doing it so we could we use analytics track how often the app is being used and we could say: for each user who has the use the app, who has uninstalled it but has not used the app last month, maybe we can send them a push notification just to say something relevant.   

How to configure Push Notification in your application?

Before you start you need a few things to set up

Xcode 9.2 or later

For Cloud Messaging:
– A physical iOS device
– An Apple Push Notification Authentication Key for your Apple Developer account
– In Xcode, enable Push Notifications in App → Capabilities

How to add Firebase to your app?

  • Go to the Firebase console
  • Click Add project, then select or enter a Project name.
    – If you have an existing Google project associated with your app, select the project from the Project name drop-down menu.
    – If you don’t have an existing Google project, enter a new Project name.

 

  • Follow the remaining setup steps, then click Create project.

Now that you have a project, you can add your iOS app to it:

  • Click Add Firebase to your iOS app and follow the setup steps. If you’re importing an existing Google project, this may happen automatically and you can just download the config file.

  • When prompted, enter your app’s bundle ID. It’s important to enter the bundle ID your app is using; this can only be set when you add an app to your Firebase project.
  • During the process, you’ll download a GoogleService-Info.plist file. You can download this file again at any time.
  • Add  GoogleService-Info.plist in the root directory of tour project.

Configuring APNs with FCM

Create the authentication key
  • In your developer account, go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, and under Keys, select All.
  • Click the Add button (+) in the upper-right corner.
  • Enter a description for the APNs Auth Key.

  • Under Key Services, select the APNs checkbox, and click Continue.
  • Click Confirm and then Download. Save your key in a secure place. This is a one-time download, and the key cannot be retrieved later.

This Upload Auth key in firebase iOS APP
 Firebase Console -> Project -> Settings -> Cloud Messaging -> iOS app configuration

Configure an App ID for Push Notifications

To send Push Notifications to an iOS App, you must configure its App ID to do so.

  • In the list of iOS App IDs, select the one you want to use, then click Edit. 
  • In the Push Notifications section, you can create a Client SSL certificate for the development or production environment. Create one for development clicking Create Certificate… in the Development SSL Certificate section. 

  • You should now see a section called About Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) that contains information about creating a CSR. Click Continue.

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  • You should now be in the Generate section of the flow. Click Choose File… and select the .certSigningRequest file that you created before, then click Generate when it becomes active. 

  • When the SSL certificate is ready, click Download to save it to your Mac, and click Done to close the certificate creation flow.

  • On your Mac, locate the downloaded SSL certificate and double-click it to install it in your keychain.
  • On your Mac, open Keychain Access. Under My Certificates, locate the certificate that you have just added; it should be called Apple Development IOS Push Services: your.bundle.id.

  • Right-click on the certificate, select Export Apple Development IOS Push Services: your.bundle.id and save it as a .p12 file. Enter a password to protect the exported certificate if you want.

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Store digital Documents on Blockchain – StampMyDoc

Implement Blockchain API & Protect Business and Data Integrity. Silent Infotech helps you prevent unauthorized data manipulation by implementing blockchain. Blockchain technology could offer strong protection against identity theft and violation of data privacy.

Current Problem in Education Sector

  • As per UGC, there are 279 fake technical colleges
  • 23 Fake universities
  • Any document can be tempered which is stored in the central system.
  • Notary and physical stamping process is too expensive and time-consuming
  • Document integrity is a question.
  • Reliable storage is a challenge.
  • Data privacy is the biggest concern.
  • Employers are spending 3200 INR for each candidate for their background verification check which can be done for free within 10 seconds.
  • Any offline degree certificate verification process takes 1 month which is feasible only within 10 seconds.

Solution by Silent Infotech

Silent infotech has developed the StampMyDoc is a Blockchain based document stamping platform to cryptographically sign any document and store it on Blockchain. The first application of this platform is the education sector in India to publish academic results and degree certificates on the Blockchain to prevent fraud and fake certificates & universities.

  • Document integrity on the public network
  • The digital signature of the document
  • Timestamping of the document
  • Proven ownership, integrity & secrecy of the documents/contracts.

    How it works 
  • Upload the document on an information system.
  • Send it to the respective parties to the review and sign electronically.
  • Calculate the hash with SHA256 algorithm.
  • Store the hash on the Blockchain network, the Blockchain network can be public Ethereum network or government can start private Blockchain network for the same.
  • Notify everyone with Block number to verify the information on the Blockchain.  
  • Any further changes to this contract/document will be recorded as a journal on to the Blockchain network.
  • It can send the email notification to each participant.
  • The document can be signed from the Mobile application as well.
  • The document can be signed with a private key stored as a digital signature of any authority.
  • You can download this application from Google play store: StampMyDoc

In the below diagram you can see how you can store your documents on the blockchain.

  • Any degree certificate can be signed cryptographically and uploaded to the
     Blockchain to verify the integrity and prevent fraud.
  • It is democracy in the true sense.
  • Stampmydoc will allow any department to cryptographically sign the document and store it on to the Blockchain.
  • The document can be anything including contracts or certificates.
  • The document can be verified any moment on the Blockchain network by permitted parties.
  • Any education degree certificate can be uploaded to the Blockchain for future verification which can fully avoid fraud certificates.

Beneficiaries

Government:
Any government department can secure their documents on Blockchain to prove integrity anytime.

Universities
Any results or degree certificates can be published on to the Blockchain to verify it easily.

Employers
Currently, all the employers are spending 3200 INR per candidate for a background verification check. this can be done within 10 seconds.

Private Businesses
Any business can adopt the platform and can sign the contracts electronically.

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How to use RFID for inventory & warehouse management

RFID stands on “Radiofrequency Identification”.

RFID is the technology which is working on radio frequency waves. So this technology is used to automatically identify the objects.

Here the objects could be anything, it could be a book in a library, any item which you are purchasing from the shopping mall, inventory in the warehouse, or maybe your own car. Not only objects it can be used to tracking the animals as well as the birds.

In this technology, the RFID tags used to get attached with the object which we want to track. This RFID reader is continuously sending the radio waves, so whenever the object is in the range of the reader then this RFID tag is used to transmit its feedback signal to the reader.

It is nearly similar the technology which is used in the barcode. But in case of a barcode, the object and the scanner should be in a line of sight. As in the RFID, technology is not a line of sight technology so far as this object is in within the range of the reader, the object is able to identify the reader and it is able to send a feedback signal back to the reader.

Using the RFID technology we can track the multiple objects at the same time.

RFID system contains 2 components,

  1. RFID reader
  2. RFID tag

RFID tags are coming in many ways,

  1. Active tags
  2. Passive Tags
  3. Semi-Passive Tags

If it is a mobile handled like we will be using today only a handled reader and an RFID tag will be needed.

RFID readers mainly consist of 3 components

  1. RF signal generator – It generates the radio wave which is transmitted using the antenna. Also, receive the feedback signal which is coming from the tag.
  2. Receiver / Signal Detector – To process the information which is being sent by the RFID tag.
  3. Microcontroller – many times this RFID reader is directly connected with the computer.

How to use RFID for inventory & warehouse management

  • Supplier reserve the products through the application for reservation.
  • Transfer through the system to the warehouse manager.
  • After agreeing the supplier’s warehousing application the warehouse manager chooses to confirm the expected storage.
  • Suppliers follow up the requirements, import the information by electronic tags and single phase correlation with shipments.
  • The staff collates the information of the goods ready for shipment through the vehicle read-write device.
  • The RFID reader installed at the door of the warehouse instantly reads out the goods and sends the information to the company.
  • Achieve real-time dynamic management of supplier’s shipment information and confirm shipment information again.

Warehousing Process

  • After goods enter the storage area, the staff scan the goods in the storage area.
  • If quantity and excepted quantity are kept, the next step will continue.
  • The system follows up stocks and supply information and lays down the location of goods.
  • And sends the information to the onboard computer to indicate the best path.
  • After the goods are mounted, scan the RFID labels on the track and check the cargo information.
  • Information has been associated with the shelves to completes the warehousing process, to achieve the synchronization of checking location.

Outbound process

  • After the delivery order is received by the information, it sends to the forklift truck.
  • After the goods are off the shelves, the staff scan the electronic labels on the shelves to unbind the goods with the shelves.
  • The staff scanned the goods in the shipment area and confirmed the shipment information.
  • When the goods are transported to the doorway of the warehouse, the RFID fixed reader on the door of the warehouse checks the cargo information and quantity again.
  • Completing the outgoing process after confirmation.

Inventory Process

  • First, the system sends the inventory plan to the PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) handset.
  • The staff can check the information about the goods by checking PDA.
  • After receiving the instruction, the staff scan all the goods by mobile mode.
  • Read all cargo information at one time.
  • Record the inventory results synchronously and compare with the inventory plan to achieve dynamic inventory.

Benefits of RFID

  • Allows individual stock items to be traced, located and retrieved without human intervention.
    • Because the RFID chip system monitors the stocks 24/7
  • Automatically identifies stock levels to check for when recording is required.
    • This is so that user time for manual recording can be reduced.
  • Provides more accurate system and eliminates human errors.
    • This is because the company will benefit from fewer errors in ordering costs and so save money.
  • Many RFID tags can be read at once
    • This saves time because of whole pallets of products can be checked simultaneously.
  • Tags can be overwritten – the information can be changed.
    • This enables to be updated, for example when the stock is moved from one side of a store to another.
  • Security of stock is increased.
    • This is because of tag readers can be placed at exits so that if stock if moved without authority it triggers the alarms.
  • It can help to save money.
    • This is because RFID tags can prevent over-stocking on items such as perishable goods that have a short shelf life.
  • RFID technology at the point-of-sale can be used to monitor demand trends.
    • This is so stores can use the information to predict what should be ordered or for similar products to be considered for sale.

Barcode Vs RFID

BarcodeRFID
Barcode system requires a line of sight for a read.RFID system uses a radio wave proximity system.
Barcode reader typically operates in distance of 1 to approx 18 inches.RFID system can operate in distances greater than 100m.
Due to the line of sight requirement, barcode system can only read a single barcode at a time.RFID system depending on certain types and/or flavors of systems can read anywhere from 10’s to 100’s tags in simultaneously.
The quality of a barcode can deteriorate rapidly over a short amount of time resulting in failed read attempts.RFID tags are typically more rugged and therefore have a longer life expectancy than barcode labels.
Barcode readers are only able to read information from the barcode label.RFID system has the ability to read and write to the RFID tags.
Today barcodes are found on almost every item and there are no privacy issues involved with its use.RFID tags are more reusable and rugged as they are protected by a plastic cover.
Barcodes are a universal technology in that they are the norm for retail products; stores that own a barcode reader can process barcodes from anywhere in the world.RFID contain high levels of security; data can be encrypted, password protected or set to include a ‘kill’ feature to remove data permanently.

Silent Infotech’s Solution

We have developed the AI based seafood supplychain ERP where the where the seafood supplier can trace and track the freshness and quality of seafood. We are providing supplychain planning, supplier scheduling, product configurator, order to cash, purchasing, inventory, warehousing, and shipment.

In this ERP Seafood Caught by the fisherman and is then tagged with RFID or QR Codes, this then gets transferred, and the sensors on the seafood transmit information in real time about location, time, date, etc.

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Odoo community VS Odoo Enterprise edition

In the starting phase odoo familiar as openERP is a set of open source enterprise management applications.

The large companies, small business, associations and many different types of organizations used odoo for control, automate, measure and optimize their operations, finance and projects.

In the odoo version 6,7, & 8 there is no technical variations between community and enterprise version and it has changed in V9.

Features of Odoo Community

The Odoo Community Association is the non-profitable organization which is promote the global use of odoo and assist the synergetic development of odoo feature.

It is provides financial, organizational and legal assistance to the larger odoo open source community. It is also provides as an independent legal entity where community member can subscribe the code, funding, and other resources with knowledge and their subscription will be maintained for public benefits.

Odoo software can be used, modified and distributed by anyone.

The source code, bug reports pull requests are hosted by GitHub to access anyone.

Features of Odoo Enterprise

If user applies the proprietary licence he/she only can use the odoo enterprise subscription.

  • Modifications are allowed.
  • Distribution only to odoo enterprise subscribers.

The all adoo projects is fully hosted on GitHub and access to all partners and customers who have odoo subscription.

The whole database and back-end applications, without limitations, are in Odoo Community.

  • Basic Functionality is in Odoo Community.
  • Migration to the next version by Odoo SA engineers is in Odoo Enterprise.
  • Several Functionalities are in Odoo Enterprise.
  • Support of the non-customized Odoo Enterprise by Odoo SA Engineers.
  • Apps from Odoo Store.

Odoo Enterprise is a combination of “odoo community + additional functional modules”

The difference between the two editions.

Layer
Community version 9

Enterprise version 9

Required hardware

From 2 CPU/ @ RAM

From 2 CPU/ @ RAM

Scalability

The same load balancing

The same load balancing

Flexibility

The same modular architecture

The same modular architecture

Community and Store App

Can Install any module

Can Install any module

Enterprise App

Not available

Included in the package

Localization
The same localizationThe same Localisation
Out-of-the boxRequires more customization
Includes nice UI and more functionality
Access rightsThe same configurationThe same configuration

UI
Standard interfaceNice and fast navigation

Support and upgrade
Not includedIncluded by the vendor
PriceNo licence cost20 EUR/user/month
Development accessIt can be utilized by the developers.To access enterprise you will have to purchase LGPL (Lesser General public license) which has been published by the free software foundation.
ControlYou can install any module via community and store appsYou cannot install any module directly.
Mobile supportNot availableAvailable
UniquenessCommunity edition does not contain all the features of enterprise.Enterprise edition does contain all the features of community.

Hardware & Scalability

  • If we follow the hardware essence odoo can be estimated for companies of almost any size and odoo did it for 2000 global companies with vast terrestrial distribution but it recommended the breaking applications and database servers for 90 employees. The load balancing of the application server would be used for the company who have 250+ employees.

  • There are 90% free and 10% paid applications are available in odoo app store.

  • Odoo Enterprise includes additional unique modules that will move the ERP experience to the next level.

  • Any localization can be installed as additional on both versions.

Flexibility in community and enterprise apps

odoo have the modular structure, by this, you can customized through modules and database configuration.

Functionality difference between community and enterprise apps


Odoo Modules

Community Version

Enterprise Version

Finance Management
- Account Payable
- Account Receivable
- General Ledger
- Bank Statement Reconciliation
- Dynamic Accounting reports.
- Bank interface US/NZ/canada.
- Plaid connector.
- Import bank statement in .qif files and .ofx formats
- SEPA payments
- Payment follow up management
- Batch deposit

Project Management
- CRM
- Sales Management
- Address book
- Pricelists		- VoIP integration.
- Digital signature.
- Customer Portal.
- Sell digital products.
- Send documents by regular posts.
- Manage subscription and recurring invoicing.

Human resource Management
- Employee Directory
- Expenses
- Vacations
- Recruitments		- Mobile app to track time activities.
- Appraisals.
- Departments Dashboards

Inventory and supply chain Management
- Inventory Management.
- MRP.
- Purchase management.
- Barcode scanner support.
- Shipping connectors.
- Multi-company flows.

Website and ecommerce
- Website builder
- Blogs
- Presentations		- eBay connector
- Form builder
- A/B testing and versioning
- Amazon connector

Point Of sale

- Point of sale (offline mode)

- Point of sale restaurants loyalty cards.

Marketing
- Events
- Expenses
- Email Marketing
- Live chat		- Lead Scoring
- Email marketing templates
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Why odoo is an alternate of SAP?

ERP stands for enterprise resource planning. Companies have relied on it since 90’s just to streamline processes and improve data visibility around finance project management and manufacturing, however, the cost of ownership began to climb significantly and on-premises ERP couldn’t keep up with modern security demands or technology trends.

ERP evolved to embrace the internet with new features and functionality.

Enter ERP cloud, the cloud offers a more affordable alternative for ERP because it eliminates the need for software and hardware or additional IT staff. ERP cloud enables organizations of all  sizes and across all industries to make

  • significant cost savings,
  • Improve business insights
  • Enhance collaboration
  • Increase in efficiency.

@Silent Infotech we are providing the best ERP solution based on Odoo ERP,  As one of the most promising ERP solutions growing rapidly worldwide, ODOO integration is now a priority to stay ahead in this competitive digital market.

At Silent Infotech, we have a dynamic team of ODOO technical developers and functional consultants to facilitate ODOO integration and customization needs.

We are working on opensource technology and odoo is based on Open source model. It the most professional and specific ERP solution for any business.

We understood your business and we are providing the best cost-effective solution here.

However, we are serving customized ODOO module development services for business-specific needs.

Small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses often face challenges with maintaining their position in the marketplace and need to overcome these before they can make more money.

So here is the comparison between SAP ERP and Odoo.

Odoo SAP
odoo/openERP is a comprehensive suits of business application including sales, CRM, Project management, warehouse management, manufacturing, financial management, and human resource etc.
SAP ERP is an enterprise resource planning software developed by the german company SAP SE.
SAP ERP incorporates the key business functions of an organization.
Being an open source platform, implementation and maintenance is low.
SAP implementation and maintenance, both are quite high.
Odoo offers much more freedom and flexibility. It is based on python who’s consultants are readily available in the market.
SAP offers good functionality, but lack of free code means only SAP consultants can perform customization, which is costly.
Every new release requires migration of code & data.
SAP product has been developed with backward compatibility in mind.
From version 8 onwards odoo has removed most of the critical bugs.
SAP is much more mature and has lesser bugs, which are minor and get removed from time-to-time.
There are 2M+ users of odoo
There are 650K+ users of SAP.
There are 730 partners of odoo
There are 670 partners of SAP.
Odoo is spread over 120+ countries.
SAP is spread over 190+ countries.
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Advance Odoo Configurations: Routes & Procurement

Advance Odoo Configurations:

A route is a group of procurement rules and pushes rules. Odoo can manage advanced push/pull routes configuration.

Configuration: Procurement rules are the part of the routes.

First, go to the Inventory–>Configuration–>Settings–> and click on Advance routing of products using rules

Pre – Configured routes:

In the Inventory, Application goes to the Configuration–> warehouse.

In the warehouse configuration tab, incoming shipment and outgoing shipments you can set options as per your choice.

Custom Routes:

In the inventory –> Configuration –>Routes

First, you have to select the places where this route can be selected. You can combine several choices.

Routes applied on warehouses:

If you choose warehouse, you have to choose which warehouse it will be applied. The route will be set for all transfer in that warehouse that would meet the condition of the procurement and push rules.

Routes applied to products:

If you tick Products, you have to manually set on which product it will be applied.

Open the product which you want to apply the routes

Inventory Control –> Products

Routes applied to Product Category

Tick on product category you have to manually set on which categories it will be applied.

Open the product on which you want to apply the routes (Configuration –> Product Categories). Select the routes under the Logistics section


Routes applied on Sales Order lines

If you click on sales order line you can set manually routes for every time to make a sale order.

To make it work you can also have to activate the use of the routes on the sales order.

You can now choose the routes for each line of your sales orders:

Procurement configuration

On the product Inventory Control –> Products and then click on procurement request. And choose the preferred routs.

Procurement routes setting:

Procurement rules are part of the routes.

Go to the Inventory application—>Configuration—>Settings and tick “Advance routing of products using rules“.

Go to configuration –> routes. In the procurement rules section click on add item.

Push rules settings

The push rules are set on the routes. Go to Configuration –> Routes.

In the push rule section, click on Add an item.

Here you can set the conditions for your rule. In this example, when a good is in Input location, it needs to be moved to the quality control. In the 3 steps receipts, another push rule will make the goods that are in the quality control location move to the stock.

Stock transfers

The push rule will trigger the stock transfer. According to the rule set on your route, you will see that some transfers might be ready and others are waiting.

The push rule that was set above will create moves from WH/Input location to the WH/Quality Control location.