Introduction
ERPNext is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite that leverages the power and flexibility of open-source technologies. It excels at managing core business processes such as finance, sales, human resources, manufacturing, purchases, services, helpdesk needs, and more. Among the benefits of implementing a system like ERPNext are:
- Better productivity by automating repetitive business processes
- Improved IT efficiency by sharing a database for all departments within the company
- Better decision-making thanks to an integral vision of how business units relate to each other
ERPNext is based on Frappe, a full-stack web application framework written in Python that takes full advantage of the Node/JavaScript runtime environment and uses MariaDB as its database backend. One of the many advantages of Frappe-based applications, like ERPNext, is the bench command-line utility. The bench CLI saves administrators time by automating tasks such as installing, updating, configuring, and managing multiple Frappe/ERPNext sites.
In this tutorial you will install and configure an ERPNext stack on one server running Ubuntu 20.04. This will allow you to configure your stack for various development or production environments depending on your needs, and it will prepare you to build a more complex, fault-tolerant architecture.
Prerequisites
- One Ubuntu 20.04 server with at least 4 GB of RAM and a non-root
sudouser. You can set up your server and user by following our Ubuntu 20.04 initial server setup guide.
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