Trunk HR Improvements

Hello,

We did lots of improvements on HR (as well as others modules) in the trunk, to be released in new versions. The biggest ones:

• resources : employees are resources, as well as work centers. We made a generic scheduler in the trunk that computes capacity based plannings using resources.
• time scale: these resources have working time (ex: from monday to friday, 9am-6pm), capacities, ... This allows to efficiently compte project's planning (long term and short term) and manufacturing orders based on work centers capacities.
• the time scale is integrated with public and employee's holidays.

For the scheduler, we took the algorythm implemented in the open source project: faces.

We did lot's of efforts in internal evaluation of employees, hr surveys and salary grid. The most significant changes in these area is the survey module that allows you to build forms/survey to:

• recruit new people
• do internal survey (satisfaction, efficiency, ...)
• manage the internal interviews plan per employee.

For internal evaluations, we did a plan system, ex: first meeting after 6 months, next every year if everything is ok. You can define goals, review goals, ...

Others small improvements in hr:

• Better integration with document management system for jobs hiring processes (database of CV's, ...)
• Much more better views, menus
• Review of crm.case into better redruitement forms (the object is separated)
• Leaves and holidays have been improved a lot. (leaves requests, recuperation days, ...)

SUN & OpenERP Partnership

Ever-shifting conditions, shorter lead times, and heightened global competition are facts of life in today's business climate. To effectively compete, you need to operate more efficiently and reduce TCO. ERP systems can provide significant improvements in operational and administrative costs, on-time delivery, and order accuracy. And running open-source Open ERP on the Sun platform can help you implement and ERP solution cost effectively.

Here is a screenshot of the announce on SUN's homepage:


You can get more information on the OpenERP + Sun Partnership. You can download MySQL branches of OpenERP on launchpad.

Community & Partner Meeting, 23-25 March

Hello,

The 23th and 24th of march, we will organise the annual OpenERP Community Meeting in our offices in Belgium. The proposed planning is:

23th of March

• Presentation of the new version and new features: 4h
• Lunch
  
• Each contributor will have to opportunity to present his contributions and modules, 20 minuts per module to present: 3h
  
• Q&A, Discussion about the future of OpenERP: 1h
• Diner at a typical belgian restaurant
  

24th of March

• The whole day is dedicated to workshops by small groups: useability, accouting expert, services mgt, community organisation, ...
• The goal of these workshops is to discuss priorities and write specifications for the next version of OpenERP.
  

This community meeting will be followed by the partner meeting, the 25th of march, to discuss business issues.

25th of March: restricted to partners

• Development Strategy 2010
• Services and products (Odoo, support, maintenance, certification)
• Organisation of the partners network
• Management of leads
• Marketing activities

If you need more information and want to subscribe to one of these events (or both), you can subscribe by sending an email to nma AT openerp.com.