CK - Common Knowledge - to be shared and developed by all - ERP

Description
The Education cluster is a full web-based school management system. Together with other modules of CK-ERP, this cluster aims to provide facilities to automate an educational institute's back-office operation. Specific target users of this cluster are community colleges and senior high schools.

Features

Structural Features
. handling multiple schools within one CK-ERP installation
. tree shaped gradebook (assessment) design with maximum tree depth of 5

CK-ERP is an open source accounting / educational / MRP / ERP / CRM system that runs on top of multiple middlewares. It provides multi-currency, multi-ledger, multi-warehouse accounting and back office functionalities to SMEs. It provides fine-grained access control security and supports multilingual operation.

It comprises 32 modules - Contact Management, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship Management, Material Requirement Planning, Warehouse, Inventory, Service, Accounting Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchase Order, Sales Order, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, Human Resources, Staff Self Service, Payroll, Administration, Internationalization, Access Control, Data Import, Teacher, Counsellor, Student, Applicant, Family, Registrar, Edu Administration and Volunteer Management.

Operating platform can either be LAMP or LAPP. Backend database engine can be anyone of MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

Important Note:

Most mainline ERP software suffers from the common pitfall of trying to please every single user or potential user; thus, creating a huge set of parameters and a complicated customization, installation and deployment process. These accumulate into the requirement to employ a ERP consultant costing more than the software itself. Therefore, irrespective of user requests, features that are too complicated or too difficult to maintain will not be designed into nor implemented with CK-ERP. Specifically, minimal documentation will be made available to users of CK-ERP.

At the same time, to avoid being involved in lawsuits and/or wrangling with legal attorneys/lawyers, CK-ERP tries to be up front about its weaknesses, so please read through carefully in detail the content of the index page of each CK-ERP module before diving into CK-ERP.