1   Introduction

The free software and open source ERP solution OFBiz Neogia leans on OFBiz ERP sturdy technical foundations (project launched since 2001), a set of technical and business components well known for their high coverage, flexibility and great sturdy. OFBiz Neogia is a integrated business solution specifically conceived to answer to business needs of rapidly expanding SMEs. OFBiz Neogia solution covers finance, supply chain management (including production management and distribution), CRM (including marketing, sales, after-sales and service management) as well as e-commerce. Available on every J2EE solutions and every SGDB, OFBiz Neogia runs under Microsoft Windows and under every Unixes supporting Java including Linux.

OFBiz Neogia adpats itself to your growth and to evolutions of your activity by letting you fire the best part of your time and of your resources. You can now rationalise your activity and increase your activity.

2   Description

Neogia comes as a set of add-on component for OFBiz the enteprise application framework. Neogia is a complete ERP solution. Neogia doesn't aim to replace the OFBiz framework. It needs a full OFBiz installation to work except for the code generators. Neogia provides 3 types of component :

• Functional componant (or business component). These components can be are integrated in OFBiz as new components or replacing an existing OFBiz component (or sub-component).

  • manufacturing : replace the OFBiz existing component, It's a complete refactorization of it, a UML class diagram dedicated and a complete new coding.
  • facility : replace the stock management OFBiz component, picking and shipment management are not included in neogia, we continu to use the OFbiz sub-components. Neogia-Facility inclue a full Physical Inventory component. This component has been build after a refactorization of the data modele with the UML modelization to be able to manage Stock Event releazed and planned.
  • accounting : replace the OFBiz existing sub-componentl, for General ledger and controling entries. UML class diagram est new. Payement management continu to be manage by ofbiz.
  • servicemgnt : new component to manage all service activities or project activities. UML class diagram est new.

• add-on to existing Ofbiz Component for Neogia components access. The associated UML class diagram describe the OFBiz entity and their association with the Neogia component.

  • common : used to manage all the enumeration and status neogia attribue, (technically managed in the OFBiz entity Enum and Status)
  • content : used to unified development rules et manage the multi-language String Neogia attribue.
  • order : used to access order header and item.
  • party : used to access Party, RoleType, PartyRole and Communication entities.
  • product : used to acess Product and for managing integration between OFBiz ad Neogia-Facility.

• A technical component, used to generate most of the OFBiz files from UML class diagram. With generation you can have a better object approach because one object is available for each entity, you can generalized the OFBiz best practice because all the generated file use its.

  All file developed are realized as extend of the generated file so it's possible to regenerate the file when a new technology or best practice appair.

3   Licence

Neogia is released under GPL licence

4   Tools used

• maven 1.0 from apache fondation : this tool is used to automate all operations needed to create the generator and to run generators in each neogia component.
• Poseidon_for_Uml form gentelware company: We are using (the community edition) for editing the UML class diagram. The file with zuml extention can be unzipped to create the xmi file which is the standard UML format readable by all the UML editor.

5   Download

OFBiz Neogia ERP solution can be downloaded from the project download page You can obtain a ready to use package of OFBiz Neogia from this page