Sap Business One Erp For Multinationals Special Attention To Brazil

International business has its specific and sometimes even underwater rocks

. One of the areas where you have to do your homework is accounting software selection

If you work in IT in multinational corporation then you probably know that it is difficult to find single accounting application and deploy it in the headquarters and all overseas branches. It isnt easy but it is probably doable. In this small publication we are giving some details how it could be done on SAP B1 platform. Expected readers are IT directors and controllers and this paper is not intended for programmers. It is designed in the form of questions and answers:

Q. Why are you suggesting Business One for multinational company? We heard that it is small business ERP

A. There are several reasons. First of all we are talking about midmarket firms. It is often the case that midsized companies reduce their manufacturing cost by opening production facility in Southeast Asia or South America. Secondly if you have less than hundred users then performance should not be a concern. Third reason is in its Multilanguage support

Q. We deploy Microsoft Dynamics GP in USA and our location in Argentina where it is localized. However for our facility in Brazil we cannot deploy GP as it is not available in Portuguese. What are our options?

A. In Brazil there are such requirements as SPED (Public Digital Bookkeeping System) and sophisticated tax rates and formulas. What we have seen so far is SAP B1 implementation for local branch and then GL entries export into text file and import them to Great Plains via Integration Manager. Then you are ready to produce consolidated P&L and Balance Sheet in Microsoft Management Reporter or FRx

Q. We have heard about ERP localization terminology. But what does it mean in some details?

A. It is foreign language support in user interface and data entry as well as compliance to the legislation of the hosting country. Compliance might be challenging especially in large regional powers such as Brazil, China, Russia or India. Sometimes we hear ideas about deploying something like Great Plains in China. Please think about the fact that GP Dexterity doesnt support Unicode directly. This means that it is very difficult to enable user interface in Chinese as well as data entry

Q. Why are you mentioning Atlanta and Chicagoland in the header of the paper?

A. We have consulting strategy to sell software and design IT infrastructure in the United States. Then we involve our associated offices in Brazil, Russia and China to implement add-ons required for localization down there. What you are getting is support worldwide as well as unification of such important things as GL Chart of accounts and naming conventions. If this is done that way then consolidated financial reporting, external and internal audit are relatively straightforward routines

Q. Where should we host our servers? maybe locally in each office?

A. We recommend host all the companies on central MS SQL Server in your headquarters. Then open client interface via Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Server. This method allows you to exercise IT control over the whole corporation and enforce unification in implementation

Please call us 1-866-304-3265, 1-269-605-4904 (for international customers, where our representative pick up the phone in St. Joseph, MI call center). help@efaru.com. We have local presence in Chicagoland, Southern California, Atlanta, South West Michigan and Houston and Dallas areas of Texas. We serve customers USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil nationwide and internationally via web sessions and phone conferences (Skype is welcomed). Our consultants speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. We feature our expertise is in International Business. We provide second opinion in SB1 data migration, customization and reporting

by: Andrew Karasev

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