OFBiz track @ Apachecon US 2015 in Texas, Austin - April 13-17, 2015

The OFBiz track at the Apachecon NA 2014 event in Austin, Texas, USA involved all aspects of OFBiz including business and development, with speakers from the US and Europe and Asia. Summary abstracts of the presentations were as follows:

Abstract Summary: State of Apache OFBiz

Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems.

This talk will provide an introduction to OFBiz, its history and its community.

It will also summarize the main areas of recent developments, where the project stands today and where it is going.

Abstract Summary: Why Large Companies Use Apache OFBiz ERP

We have done several installations of Apache OFBiz in large companies that have revenues of $300M+ . This presentation will show why these companies selected OFBiz and how the system was implemented using BPM, agile project management and involved the practice of continuous improvement and deployment.

Abstract Summary: Can OFBiz Stand the Stringent Regulatory Requirements of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing?

OFBiz is an eCommerce and general purpose ERP platform that provides a solid foundation for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solution; OFBiz is backed by a solid framework and robust set of tools under the hood, which makes extending the platform to specialty industries a breeze. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing is arguably the most regulated industry around and easily qualifies as a specialty industry as it is mandatory to comply with the regulatory requirements from a number of federal agencies. The three biggest challenges facing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing include:

• Inventory Management for ingredients and products that have limited shelf life and the system needs to track expired and close-to-end-of-life inventory accurately.
• Production Management / Quality Assurance where batch tracking for both ingredients and products is mandated as part of recall management; Fulfillment systems must address the security and shipping labelling aspects; As the ingredients and products go through a number of life cycle stages typical to this industry, accurate labelling is the key for traceability.
• Regulatory compliance requires comprehensive audit history across the platform and document management with proper version control.

In this presentation, we will walk you through the OOTB features, platform extensibility and tool-sets that are available under the hood that makes implementing the complex regulatory requirements easy to achieve