Interesting. In the E4 project we are using ]po[ on top of OpenACS 5.4 with TWiST webservices to use ]po[ for the production lifecycle for the production of a product based on a bill of material, stored in code written in Java / .NET.
It would go a little bit far to spell it all out, but what we achieved so far is the ability to create a preliminary BOM based on existing products in a cluster of companies and provide the best network based on KPIs, allowing us to come up with a concrete BOM with the supplier of the component filled in. Each component has a workflow associated with it which, upon production start will trigger the creation of tasks in ]po[ for the various types of managers.
The system explicitly does not try to interface with existing PPS systems, this is something one has to do manually.
Now looking at what you are offering, an integration with your ERP purchasing, accounting and wharehousing system would be a good addition. Not to mention the fact that our partners are located in Milan and Turino, therefore language is not an issue 😊.
We are having develop meetings in March, April and June, so maybe you could join us for one of these and see where an integration with ALTER would take us. It would be nice to plug and play with the various OpenACS flavours and come up with something much bigger than the sum of the parts.
