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Among the major international ERP brands, localized for Brazilian market we should mention SAP with its recently localized product: SAP Business One, Oracle: Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Financials/Oracle Applications, Microsoft Business Solutions Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics AX) – Axapta localization is scheduled to be available in 2006. In this small article we will concentrate on Oracle E-Business Suite Brazilian localization highlights and its competition. Oracle Financials: o Standard Functionalities – they automate business processes common in all countries, so these are used Worldwide. Globalization Code ‘JG’ is located in Globalization product ares o Regionalized Code – for Americas it is ‘JL’ o Brazilian Localization – the code is ‘JLBR’ Competition: SAP Business One. When we are talking about mid-size and small companies (10-300 employees), we would like to give some comparis...

In previous short articles we have been discussing the options for international company (branches of multinationals with headquarters in US, UK, Australia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain) to implement so-called localized MRP in Brazil. We covered Microsoft Dynamics NAV, AX, CRM. This small article is dedicated to SAP and its mid-market and small-to-midmarket MRP application – SAP Business One. SAP BO in Brazil is available in March 2006. o Local taxes and regulations. CNAE, CPF, IE, IEST, IM – localization supports these rules and taxes o Multilanguage. SAP BO has advanced language support in comparison to other localized ERPs: Oracle E-Business Suite, Navision, Axapta, JDEdwards – in SAP Business One you can switch language (from Portuguese to English for example) in the same user session for the same company. Multilanguage support in our opinion enables tight control to financial officers in headquarters for their Brazilian or any other overseas subsidiary. o...

Axapta or now Microsoft Dynamics AX (with the new name for Microsoft Project Green – Microsoft Dynamics) is in the initial phase of requirements mapping for first implementation in Brazil. It is localized to support Brazilian taxation, federal & state reporting and translated to Portuguese. In this small publication we would like to focus on Axapta strong points and how they should fit to Brazilian business requirements o Supply Chain Management. Axapta supports intra-company orders to fulfill external customer sales order, which allows you to design and implement flexible internal cost and profit allocation within your business group or enterprise. Also Axapta supports the seamless link between Service module (repair, preventive maintenance, damage estimation, etc) and on-demand manufacturing order (manufacturing module). Plus nice Axapta flexibility feature is Axapta business logics exposure via web services, which in turn allows repair crew technician to enter replacement p...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 should be considered as very flexible, programmable and customizable CRM application, really it is a heaven for Microsoft .Net and SQL developers. In this small article we will give you highlights on the integration techniques. Special credits should be given Microsoft SQL Server cross-platform integration options, such as Linked Server. o Scenario. Your company has good-old-days Oracle-based business management system, such as cargo tracking in transportation industry. Now you want your sales people to be moved to MS CRM and from MS CRM you need the lookup screen to shipment tracking o Technique. You create linked server to Oracle database from your MS SQL Server, hosting Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Then you create distributed SQL query and insert it in your MS CRM SDK custom form. You integrate this custom form as MS CRM tab or menu for one of your MS CRM objects: Order, Quote, Invoice o Working Off-line. When your sales people are traveling, they can n...

In this small article we will only concentrate on Microsoft Dynamics Axapta (and will not consider Microsoft Dynamics GP and NAV) in comparison to Oracle Financials/E-Business Suite/Applications and the localization and implementation in Latin America and Brazil. o Architecture & Lifecycle. In our opinion each ERP/MRP package should be first considered from its architectural fundamentals and the step in its lifecycle. Oracle E-Business Suite should be considered as very matured product and it has traditionally strong positions among corporate clientele. Oracle Applications design is in transition to Oracle Fusion project, however you should probably consider it as rather traditional. Microsoft Axapta/Microsoft Dynamics AX has modern design (very end of XXth century and very beginning of XXI). Axapta is targeted to upper mid-market and it also serves as high-end ERP for large corporations. Having modern design – Axapta has potential to be sold and increase its market share just...