AhmedShaiea / blueseer

A Free ERP for the manufacturing community

Developer: Terry Vaughn

latest release version: 6.4

latest release date: 2023-01-02

programming language: Java programming language

operating system: Cross-Platform

genre: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), EDI, Accounting, Personal Finance

languages supported: English, French, Spanish, Turkish, German, Romanian

license: MIT License

website: www.blueseer.com

'''BlueSeer ERP''' is a Free open source multilingual ERP software package. It was designed to meet the needs of the manufacturing community for an ERP system that is easily customizable and extendable while providing generic functionality that is typically observed in most manufacturing environments. BlueSeer also provides a fully functional EDI mapping tool for EDI translations and file traffic monitoring. BlueSeer is released for free use under the MIT License. The application and source code are available for download at github.com. BlueSeer was originally launched in 2017 and continues to evolve to meet user demands. The latest 'stable' release of version 6.4 was released on 2023-01-02.

Functionality

BlueSeer provides modules for the following generic set of business concepts :

• Double Entry General Ledger
• Cost Accounting
• Accounts Receivable Processing and Aging
• Accounts Payable Processing and Aging
• PayRoll
• APIs for system to system integration
• Inventory Control
• Job Tracking
• Lot Traceability
• Order Management
• Service Order and Quoting Management
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• EDI Mapping tool (supports: X12, EDIFACT, CSV, FlatFile [IDOC, etc], XML, JSON )
• EDI Communications (FTP, AS2 server/client)
• Automated Task/Cron Scheduler
• UCC Label Generation
• Materials Resource Planning (MRP)
• Human Resources (HR)

Technology

BlueSeer ERP is written entirely in Java. The application is a non-web based desktop application that relies heavily on the Java Swing widget toolkit/library. There are currently two database engines available for BlueSeer. For single client deployment, The relational database SQLite is used for it's deployment ease and server-less design. For multi-client deployment scenarios, the open-source relational database MySQL is used as the back-end database server. MySQL was chosen for it's popularity and excellent performance reviews.
BlueSeer is a menu-driven application. It's composition is a collection of Java Swing JPanel widgets. Each business function, i.e. Order Entry, Item Master Maintenance, etc is a stand-alone JPanel widget. Each JPanel widget is loaded at runtime using Reflection to 'inject' the JPanel into the JFrame on user demand. JPanel class names are stored in the database and associated with menu options which are further associated with user permissions. This archtitecture increases the capability of customization and extension by engaging BlueSeer as a Desktop Application Framework. Applications independent of the core software can be quickly deployed given the menu/class management and permissions functionality that's built into the BlueSeer framework.