This is often the question of feasibility to implement high end Corporate ERP application for international office where you only have several sales people and covering distribution of your products in the local country.
Taking to consideration the fact that Business One is localized in major regions and countries including China, Brazil, Russian Federation and Europe it makes it good option for modest operations overseas. In our opinion one of the important questions is control from the company headquarters including Financial Reporting, Sales and Purchasing. In this small publication we would like to discuss several scenarios and methodologies where you are following hub and spokes Corporate ERP model having high end ERP in the headquarters such as Dynamics AX, SAP or Oracle Ebusiness Suite and as the spoke you are deploying SAP B1 in smaller international facilities:
1. Centralized Control. It is good idea to install B1 server on one of the servers hosted in the Headquarters and supported directly by your IT department. Consider opening it to international accounting personnel via Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Server. Decent internet connection is a commodity now including foreign countries and this method gives you the IT control as well as the option to consolidate GL transactions to your Corporate ERP or use such tools as FRx or Microsoft Management Reporter to consolidate financial statement. FRx is not available for SAP BO however you can export trial balance to Excel and consolidate in FRx or MMR using Excel spreadsheet instead of direct connection to General Ledger
2. Internal Audit. In public corporations internal audit might be required. If you deploy SAP B1 in the overseas offices and have these companies hosted on the central MS SQL Server then you can use such feature as user interface language switch from foreign language, such as Brazilian Portuguese, Russian or Chinese to English. This method enables both GL entries review as well as drilling down to documents originated in peripheral modules such as Sales/AR, Purchasing/AP, Inventory Control and Service Management/Warranty Contracts
3. SAP BO and Dynamics GP combination. We often face the question about deploying Great Plains in such countries as Brazil or Russia and even China. The problem is that GP is not localized officially by Microsoft in these countries. ERP localization has two components where the first one is local language support and second is compliance to foreign country tax code, business and industry regulation. We had a business case where large company was committed to Great Plains in Chicago headquarters and wanted to implement accounting compatible with GP reporting for Brazilian facility. The solution that was implemented included exporting SB1 GL entries via SQL Select statement and marking them as exported and then moving them to shadow company in Dynamics GP via Integration Manager General Ledger Transactions integration
4. SAP Business One versus GP in Chinese connection. Great Plains traditionally is Dexterity application and it is not supporting Unicode characters such as Chinese, Korean or Japanese hieroglyphs. There are some possibilities to enable Chinese in GP via such third party tools as NJ Star or Crystal Reports but in general we do not recommend you planning complex projects where Great Plains is translated to Chinese. At the same time SAP B1 supports Unicode and is available in Chinese language
5. 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, 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
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