Inventory and POS/Cash Solutions

[Timothy Washington]

Well all of this definitely helps me understand the landscape of what I'm 
dealing with. There's a cash register & drawer and barcode reader and interact 
console already in the store. So I don't know that that machine understand Batch 
Data Communication will work on them (maybe so). 

I'm trying to decide on a bottom line here, in order to have a running system by 
Dec 15th. Looking at various vendors, but if I could hook up my cash register to 
a computer and inventory database myself, then that would be good. I've been 
recommended Lemon POS, OpenBravo, Open ERP, etc. But I'm leaning toward shelling 
out for an off-the-shelf retail POS solution. The downside of that is that it's 
probably not going to be an open system or database. If anyone's game, over the 
next week, to help me put this together... I'll owe you a little more than a 
beer lol. 

Tim




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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 5:55:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Re:Inventory and POS/Cash Solutions

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Peter <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Anyway doing all this by hand could be an interesting learning project but 
also
> a harsh and possibly painful entry into CRM land (and SAP territory).

Yep.

SAP territory is where "everything's deeply integrated into one giant
database."  There's a lot of neat stuff that can be done with that,
but it imposes a lot, too.

I rather like the "have independent systems, and pull data from them"
approach; if you can periodically pull the data underlying the cash
register tape out, a lot can be done with that, *without* forcing
writing BDC sessions
(http://www.sap-img.com/abap/learning-bdc-programming.htm) and such
awfulness.

If you want tight integration, that's hugely costly.  But having a
bunch of independent islands isn't without its costs, too :-(.
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