Mid-market companies often grow and expand internationally via acquisitions or opening subsidiaries overseas. The way of acquisitions might lead to nightmare in consolidating financial information and internal audit as here you have to deal with the bucket of foreign accounting packages installed on the servers in their respected countries.
When you feel that you got similar issue there is probably the time to begin ERP redeployment for the whole group. There are several steps in your homework and let’s review them one by one:
1. ERP platform selection. There are several factors to consider. The first one is availability in all the countries meaning that software vendor should have it translated to foreign language and provide compliance to regional and local business related legislation and tax code. Second factor is price versus flexibility and simplicity to implement. Apparently you should rule out out-of-the-shelf packages with the price of few hundred dollars and targeted to tiny businesses and personal finances. At the same time even having large operations in the headquarters it might be difficult to select high-end Corporate ERP package as the cost of rolling it out for small overseas location might be not feasible
2. Central Server Architecture. Accounting, ERP, MRP and Supply Chain Management automation allows you to exercise centralized control from the headquarters. Internet bandwidth and such technologies as Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services and new trends in Cloud Computing allow you to deploy accounting databases and foreign language based application servers directly in your central office. If you follow this architecture then central IT department should be able to provide central support including backup and opening tables for consolidated financial and managerial reporting. Plus it is possible to do centralized worldwide user training by giving it initially to project managers and key people in foreign branches who typically are reasonably fluent in English
3. How SAP B1 fits. With version 8.81 there are no more A and B flavors and all the international companies could be hosted on the same Microsoft SQL Server. Foreign language user interface could be preset for the named user or switched directly in the client application by headquarters hosted manager, controller or internal auditor. Metadata for each company is stored in SQL company database enabling localization business logic encapsulation for each foreign branch where it is required. You may expect localization to be quite sophisticated in large regional powers, such as Brazil, China, India or Russia. SAP BO supports Unicode and this feature enables user interfaces based on hieroglyphs where good example is Chinese
4. Some recommendations on competition review. If you are thinking about Business One then chances are high that your ERP implementation budget is reasonably small. If you go up a bit in software licensing pricing and implementation cost then take a look at Microsoft Dynamics ERP. If you are expanding to English speaking country or Spanish speaking Latin America then GP might be a way to go. If you have requirements for the application to be localized in such regions as Brazil, Western Europe, China or Russia take a look at Dynamics AX formerly known as Axapta
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