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ERPNext Version 16: Key Features and Improvements
Explore ERPNext Version 16: custom financial reports, MRP, serial and batch tracking, subcontracting and HR upgrades. Talk to an Operion expert.
ERPNext version 16 delivers a more professional financial experience, with smart reports, more accurate cost management, and unified financial visibility that helps organizations make faster, better decisions.
Flexible, customizable report templates
Custom Financial Reports
ERPNext V16 introduces an advanced system for building custom financial reports, so you can create dynamic, reusable reports such as profit and loss statements and balance sheets that match each company's needs.
Inventory Expense Management
The Purchase Expense Booking feature helps you record purchase expenses and link them to inventory and financial accounts more accurately and professionally, improving cost of goods calculation and giving you clearer financial visibility.
Smart cost management with more accurate costing
Consolidated reports for unified financial visibility across companies
Consolidated Financial Reporting
ERPNext V16 automatically consolidates financial data across companies and branches, giving management a unified financial view for analyzing performance and making more accurate, professional decisions.
ERPNext V16 brings a strong set of upgrades to manufacturing and supply chain management, helping companies improve planning, track production, and manage costs and inventory more efficiently.
Smart planning for material and production requirements
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
ERPNext V16 offers a smarter experience for planning material requirements, helping manufacturing teams determine required quantities, reduce waste, and improve purchase and production orders based on actual demand and future forecasts.
Serial and Batch Tracking
Version 16 provides full traceability of products and raw materials through complete serial and batch tracking, helping companies improve quality control, follow the production cycle, and analyze product movement with high accuracy.
Full traceability of materials and products
Smart stock reservation before manufacturing
Stock Reservation for Manufacturing
Stock reservation makes sure the raw materials you need are available before production starts, reducing sudden stoppages and improving the stability and efficiency of manufacturing lines.
In-House Subcontracting
ERPNext V16 introduces advanced improvements for managing subcontracting, letting you track materials sent to external contractors, follow manufacturing stages, and receive finished goods within a connected, transparent workflow.
Subcontracting cycle with professional management
Accurate allocation of additional costs
Landed Cost Voucher for Subcontracting
Companies can now calculate and allocate the additional costs tied to subcontracting through the Landed Cost Voucher, giving more accurate visibility into production and inventory costs and improving the final cost calculation of products.
ERPNext V16 offers a more advanced experience for managing employees and HR, with tools that help companies improve attendance, leave, performance reviews, and the employee experience across the organization.
Employee dashboard: a more advanced, flexible employee experience
The Advanced Employee Dashboard
ERPNext V16 improves the employee experience with a better organized dashboard that helps employees follow attendance, leave, requests, and daily tasks quickly and easily.
Attendance and Leave Management
New improvements to attendance and leave management make leave requests easier, simplify attendance tracking, and make approvals more flexible for employees and managers.
Leave management: easier leave and approvals
Performance evaluation: smarter employee performance tracking
Performance and Competency Evaluation
ERPNext V16 offers better tools for performance evaluation and productivity analysis, helping managers follow goals, measure performance, and develop talent across the organization.
ERPNext version 16 is not just a cosmetic update. It is a real step forward in performance, flexibility, user experience, and operations management for modern organizations.
Accounting and Financial Reporting Improvements
Support for Custom Financial Reports.
Enhanced Consolidated Trial Balance for multi-branch companies.
Improved Purchase Expense Booking, linked to inventory and accounting.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Upgrades
Improved Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and production order management.
Enhanced Serial & Batch Traceability for products and raw materials.
Better support for Subcontracting and Landed Cost Voucher management.
Improved Sales and Customer Experience
Enhanced CRM Dashboard and better customer management.
Improved sales cycle and opportunity tracking.
Easier quotation creation and sales management.
HR and Employee Upgrades
Better employee experience through the Employee Dashboard.
Enhanced attendance, leave, and approval workflows.
Better tools for performance evaluation and competency analysis.
Additional Updates with Big Impact
Smaller visual improvements that deliver a big impact on performance, stability, and the everyday user experience.
A Faster, More Stable POS
The point of sale received improvements that help branches and stores run daily operations faster and more reliably, with a smoother experience for staff and customers.
A More Dependable Operating Experience
Version 16 focused on improving system stability and reducing operational issues, delivering a more reliable experience for companies and their day-to-day teams.
An Architecture Ready to Scale
ERPNext V16 supports companies running large or multi-branch operations, with improvements in performance and overall stability.
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