User talk:Rvergara

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Hi Ramiro, I have added some Userboxes which describes some of your knowledge and activities inside the ADempiere community, feel free to browse available Userboxes and add those which better describes your profiles. Yours--Khalid HASSANI 19:31, 19 November 2006 (EST)

Great work Khalid, not only with user boxes but with all the changes you have done in our wiki. Great work!--Ramiro Vergara 10:10, 25 November 2006 (EST)

You are welcome Ramiro, I am looking forward to more exchanges with you, your profile seems interesting and you seem to konow a lot of things :)--Khalid HASSANI 09:33, 25 November 2006 (EST)

Asset Intensive Industries

There have been some discussion on the SF forums and IRC about applicability of ADempiere to airlines.

I would like to explain a bit of context before actually responding the key issue here.

In very simple terms, most of the industries buy goods, keep inventory, assembly products and then sell. That is where the focus of the company management is.

In asset intensive industries the key focus is on the availability of equipments, so the are mostly concern on buying the right spare parts, having the right people with right skills on the right shift and executing tightly planned and scheduled maintenance services to have the best possible availability on those assets.

Of course there are other considerations in both industries but the above are the key focus for success.

The above reasons explain why the maintenance process in an Asset Intensive Industry is very sophisticated, hence the required development within ADempiere. Development would require to start almost from scratch and only a few bits would be reusable.

Industries that are considered asset intensive industries are:

- Transportation (e.g. Airlines) - Mining - Utilities - Armed forces

It is possible to add all the required functionality within ADempiere, I just wanted to stress that it is a work intensive task.