RELEASE NOTES


2019-05-03 OBS ERP New Features May-2019

New Features and Modules in OBS ERP

New modules
  • "Delegations" Module - allows managers to delegate approval rights (for documents) to employees in case of absence. A manager can now choose a delegate for the following activities
    • Business trips
    • Expenses
    • Marketing
    • Projects
    • Vacation
  • "Accounting" Module
    • VAT Journal Sales
    • VAT Journal Purchases
    • Production
    • General ledger
    • Analytic general ledger
  • "Accounts" Module - stores detailed information about the company's clients in the context of the contracted services
    • Account owner
    • Contracted service term
    • Location of service provision
    • General terms and conditions
    • Other parameters
  • PnL (Profit and Loss) report
  • Account payables (report)
  • New interface for orders directly from customers
User Experience improvements  
  • Ability to create a task from any document in the system. Tasks are displayed in the Calendar
  • Record locking - prevents the simultaneous recording of a document by two users
  • Improvements to the main filter - a third checkbox status is added which allows excluding certain entries from the selection

 fig. 1 - third checkbox status
  • Improvement in Email Client - Draft messages are added
  • New button for monitoring changes to documents in the system
  • "Marketing" Module
    • Design and layout improvements in "Read" mode
  • "Warehouse" Module
    • function for the arrangement of incoming goods and materials
    • Automatic calculation of average price, FIFO and LIFO price
    • Possibility for the addition of a mandatory selection of warehouse places when picking goods
    • Possibility for automatic order in case of a drop of quantities below a certain number
  • "Production" Module
    • Services are added in the recipes
    • Option to enter formulas for calculating the quantities involved in the recipes
  • Opportunity for attaching a photo to a support request

fig. 2 - new menu 


fig. 3 - new menu (record locked)

Integrations
  • MailChimp (Mandrill) - Allows sending e-mail messages to a large number of recipients with no worries about entering spam lists

Business Intelligence
  • Key indicators for project management (PMi indexes)
    • Cost Performance Index
    • Schedule Performance Index
    • Effort Index
  • Tables next to each graph/chart - the BI module now presents the information in tabular format too
  • Indicators in the main screen of the system

Security
  • "Privileges" module - separation of basic and configuration modules
  • Restriction of the data in e-mail templates to the information available in the module that the e-mail is sent from
  • Record locking - prevents the simultaneous recording of a document by two users
New functions for automating work processes
  • ManufactureProductLIFO - a production process in which picking goods is organized by a LIFO method
  • ManufactureProductFIFO - a production process in which picking goods is organized by a FIFO method
  • ManufactureProductsAndTransferMaterials - a production process in which