About FrePPLe, Dolibarr and ERPlite COMPARISON OF SOFTWARES (Beginners Points)

1. Subject : Production Planning

2.  FrePPLe is an 8 years old open source production planning and scheduling application, aimed at
discrete manufacturers.
 FrePPLe’s planning algorithms implement the best practice of theory of constraints (“plan around the
bottlenecks”), lean manufacturing (“avoid unnecessary inventory and waiting times”) and supply chain
planning (“ synchronize all actors in the supply chain”)
 Compared to commercial tools in the same domain frePPLe offers an open and free alternative with a
lower cost of ownership, easy to customize and integrate in a company’s IT landscape.

3. Odoo FrePPLe Connector
 FrePPLe provides an integration with the Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP), a leading open source ERP.
 The connector provides the following functionality:
 Two-way integration.
 Live data integration : The connector reads the data directly from odoo and writes the results back. Compared to
replicating data to its own database, this provides a more native and tighter integration. It is still possible to save a
copy of the odoo in the frePPLe database to use the frePPLe user interface.
 Easy to customize: Implemented as an odoo addon module, it is easy to customize the connector to your needs.

5.  Dolibarr ERP/CRM is a software package built by modules addition (you enable only features you need), to
manage small or medium companies, freelancers or foundations. We can say Dolibarr is an ERP or CRM (or both
depending on activated modules).
 It's an OpenSource project base on a WAMP, MAMP or LAMP server (Apache, Mysql, PHP for all Operating
Systems). Dolibarr differs from other ERP or CRM softwares (like OpenAguila, OpenBravo, OpenERP, Neogia,
Compiere, etc) because everything was made to be more simple:
 Simple to install
 Simple to use
 Simple to develop

6. Main modules
 Products and services catalog
 Stock management
 Bank accounts management
 Customers, Suppliers or Prospects directory
 Contacts directory
 Commercial actions management
 Orders management with PDF generator
 Commercial proposals management with PDF generator
 Contracts management
 Invoices management with PDF generator
 Payments management

7. Cont...
 Standing orders management
 Shipping management
 Support NPR VAT (for French DOM-TOM)
 Foundations members management
 Bookmarks management
 Emailing
 Agenda
 Point of Sale
 Donations management
 Reporting
 Data export tools
 LDAP connectivity
 A lot of other official or non official modules (AWStats, Bittorrent, Gravatar, Google, Webcalendar...)

9.  The Microsoft Access database, called ERPlite, written for this small startup fits the inventory
management needs of small, entrepreneurial manufacturing companies. ERPlite's affordable solutions
are designed to be easy to use, and effective.
 ERPlite has been evolved based on real customer needs since 1995, often using well tried code from a
customer. This "Open SERPlite was designed to meet the stringent requirements of medical device
manufacturing based on manufacturing management experience at (Nortel, LG, Philips Electronics,
Cedera, Visible Genetics and others).

10. FEATURES
 Advanced Manufacturing Inventory for QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise.
 Track Serial/Lot Numbers within process and to Customer
 Cloud Hosting
 SQL Server/MySQL
 Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP).
 Track inventory by location, shelf, bin
 Open Source
 Shop Floor Control :: Routing Lists

12. COMPARISON OF THE THREE SOFTWARES
(Beginners Points)

13. POINTS OF
COMPARISON
USAGE PAID FREE FREE
TOUTORIAL ONLINE DEMO ONLINE DEMO MANUAL
USER FRIENDLYNESS FRIENDLY FRIENDLY NOT THAT FRIENDLY
WHEN COMPIRED
CUSTOMISATION AVAILABLE AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE
MODULES SALES, PURCHASE,
MANUFACTURING AND
DISTRIBUTION
SALES, PURCHASE,
MANUFACTURING,
DISTRIBUTION CRM
AND CRM
SALES,PURCHASE,
MNUFACTURING AND
CRM
FOREASTING AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE

14. POINTS OF
COMPARISON
DATA IMPORTING EASY EASY NOT EASY
INVOICE PRINTING AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE
CONSTRAIN
MANAGEMENT
DETAILED AVAILABLE & NOT
DEATILED
NOT AVAILABLE
INPUTS MORE DETAILED DETAILED LESS DETAILED
NAVIGATION EASY EASY NOT EASY