Developing a point of sale promation system in odoo

Abstract

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a business management software which is designed to coordinate resources, information and activities required by enterprise companies. It provide functional solutions for most aspects of business such as Sales, Purchase, Human Resource Management, Point of Sale, etc. Nowadays, there are many ERP systems in the technology industry like SAP, Odoo, Apache OFBiz, GNU Enterprise, etc. Odoo is an Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning System which has been developed to manage the enterprise’s business processes. Basically, Odoo is a platform itself that provides developers a standard environment to build complex management systems satisfy different business requirements. Unlike other ERP software like SAP, Odoo has enterprise and community version. For the second one, Odoo only provide standard management modules, but most of them can still be applied to solve common business requirements. However, there are always have different requirements from the customers, thus it is necessary to customize the standard modules or develop completely new applications to satisfy the business requirements. In this thesis, we will discuss about the business processes of a Point of Sale promotion system, design and implement it base on real cases of a POS system’s requirements.