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open source software | OSOR.EU | forge | Open source | e-invoicing | agribusiness | JEXTraza | OpenBravo | product information management | product tree | GNU | GPL
In February 2010, the Extremadura government published as open source JEXTraza, a supply chain tool meant to help agribusinesses verify and manage product information from source to destination. The tool is meant to be used in combination with OpenBravo, an open source enterprise resource system.
The JEXTraza project was introduced on Forja Linex, the Extremadura government's website for the development of open source software. That, coincidentally, made it the two thousandth project at OSOR.eu, which federates the software development projects of eleven collaborative development environments (forges).
Menci Nogales Galán, one of the public administrators involved in the development of JEXTraza, explains the reason why the project site is still empty. "It is in the final stages of development, and the developers are doing some final tests. Once those are concluded successfully, we will publish the source and its documentation on the forge".
Ms. Nogales Galán says the tool will manage all kinds of information associated with products, such as manufacturer, suppliers and expiry dates. Users can view such information in different ways, for example, in the form of a product tree that shows how several products are combined. "Using barcodes or its wireless version, RFID tags, you can even manage tracking requests across several companies" she concludes.
JEXTraza is published using the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). It constitutes a part of Jexpyme, an open source e-invoice system also developed for the Extremadura government.
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