subject: Sap Business One Implementation In Chicagoland Looking Toward Economic Recovery [print this page] This mid-market ERP application is very innovative. Especially in such technologies as drag and relate, openness to customization where you can add user defined fields and tables, and Crystal Reports integration just to open the list. We think that the timing to be introduced on the accounting software market in the United States was not perfect. Likely our issues were related to war time and side effects including weak dollar, state and municipality budget hardships and financial crisis of 2008. We are consulting since 1994 and we saw accounting packages winning the market over about two decades. Good comparison is probably Great Plains Dynamics as its market penetration coincided with Clinton economic boom back in late 1990th. Lets take a look at Business One and try to envision how it could be requested in Northern Illinois, North West Indiana and Southwest Michigan:
1.Chicagoland is perfect distribution hub. We are in the middle of the country and we have highways going all the directions including east and west costs as well as to the sunny belt. At the same time the cost of renting and running warehouse or distribution facility is low and will remain low as Chicago area is surrounded by plain fields open for being urbanized. We are especially optimistic about warehouse business parks along highways 355, 80, 88 and 290
2.Assembly on order versus traditional manufacturing. If you remember America twenty years ago then you probably admitting that most of the workers were employed by large and mid-size manufacturing mills. Modern production sector is suffering from outsourcing to China, Philippines and South East Asia in general. However precise final assembly on order is flourishing in Northern Illinois
3.SAP B1 as a good fit. First of all we have to admit that production and distribution companies here are small comparing to manufacturing mills in China. Company hiring thirty workers might be successful in Northern Illinois. However such companies cannot afford high budget on IT and MRP implementation. And B1 is a good balance between functionality and license cost
4.International Business. It is common practice where small firms are outsourcing spare parts producing to Asia, South America or Eastern Europe. Technically even smaller organizations are getting the attributes of multinational corporations. In order to control parts quality they are opening legal entities in foreign countries. Of course cost reduction is a market wise idea. However there are underwater rocks in implementing accounting application abroad. Business One is localized in major world regions including Brazil, Europe, South Africa, Russia and China
5.Customizations and Integrations. Modern accounting system is not something sitting in the corner on its own server and operating as isolated black box. This would be a good option for ERP vendors but they have to address the needs of customizability and interoperability. We often hear the requests to integrate Ecommerce B2B shopping cart with AR Sales Order or Invoice. Second example is private protocol EDI networks. SAP BO is open to custom programming in Microsoft Visual Studio with Software Development Kit. Code snippets are available in VB and C#.Net
6.Please call us 1-866-304-3265, 1-269-605-4904, help@efaru.com. We have local presence in Chicagoland, Southern California, Atlanta Georgia, South West Michigan, Houston and Dallas areas of Texas. We serve customers USA and Canada nationwide and internationally via web sessions and phone conferences (Skype is welcomed). We are working on Brazilian ERP consulting market in Sao Paulo since 2004
