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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...

There is hardly any ERP software that goes with the concept of one-size-fits-all. Owing to that, software experts try offering great flexibility into their ERP suites, so that business clients can tailor their software packages better by aligning every business need. Mostly, ERP software is created keeping up with the best practices of various industry verticals and market trends in mind. In other words, market demands and differing requirements of industry verticals regarding ERP resulted in the end-to-end customisation of the software by the development agencies for rightful organisational adaptation. To this point, tailoring the ERP software is a crucial facet that enterprises must look into when they assign the tasks of development to a partner company. Setting the right configuration Configuring an ERP software means setting the constants of the system, before customising its functions. The configuration of the ERP software empowers the users to swap over different usage controls ...

Mastering the implementation of an ERP solution is not a cakewalk, but needs sheer efforts and embodiment of all the vital features that will make it fully potential to serve the business’s needs. But creating such an ERP system that is composite and feature-packed to cater well to the business’s demands is a backbreaking task. Here’s explained a list of core features as recommended by ERP experts that every business need to incorporate in their ERP solution. HR planning and accounting Your ERP should support a centralised management of HR resources, from work hours tracking of personnel to performance assessment and payroll management. The feature of HR management is quintessential in an ERP to help the HR crew of enterprises to manage the vast records of employees, especially those working across different geographies. Lot management Lot tracking is a top priority in ERP solution for manufacturing and processing industries. With the feature of lot tracking, the ERP s...

Why Should we care if we can use Dynamics Business Central for Manufacturing? Given the disruption of the past year, a lot of businesses are investigating ways to work remotely and in a hybrid work environment. There are a few technologies that manufacturing companies need to use that don’t work well remotely. One of them is ERP systems. That’s why we should care about Dynamics Business Central for Manufacturing. If you are looking to replace an ERP system because you want to ensure it facilitates remote work, cloud ERP is where you need to look. My experience is almost entirely with what is often called “SMB” or Small and Medium Business manufacturers. There are not a lot of good, modern cloud based ERP systems in the mid-market / SMB space. There are even less that really support manufacturing. That means that the best cloud systems are priced out of most manufacturers budget. Oh, In case you are wondering, Microsoft defines SMB as businesses with less than 250...

The World of Corporate MRP systems is full of surprises. If in the late 1990th major ERP market players: Oracle, SAP were trying to realize the strategy of releasing so-called ‘light’, ‘select’, ‘express’ versions of their high-end ERP – the idea is very simple and attractive – if your corporate ERP application could be written on one CD (or several CDs) – why not to try the game when you disable 70% of the functionality and release ‘lite’ version? The real world kind of accepted and a the same time rejected this movement from the up to the down – as would it funny to realize, but the issue was – this is still the same heavy-pace ERP application and its implementation cycle is of course reduced, but not substantially and not enough to fit to mid-size and small companies. Plus – these heavy-weight applications were targeting super and mini computers, when Intel-based Servers achieved and surpassed the ...

Microsoft recently (in September 2005) renamed its ERP product: Great Plains – Microsoft Dynamics GP, Navision – Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Axapta – Microsoft Dynamics AX, Solomon – Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft CRM – Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The idea is probably nice – to unify future concordance product under Microsoft Dynamics name. There are multiple possibilities, however in getting all MRP systems merged into one Microsoft Dynamics and what should be taken as base and what should be phased out. We can not be judges – we will give you some facts for you to take into consideration. This article is planned as a first entry point to look “under the hood” of Microsoft ERP applications and probably compare the facts with the competition: SAP (especially SAP Business One if you are small or mid-size company or international branch of multinational corporation), Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Financials, also referred as Oracle Appl...

Enterprise resource planning systems are management information systems that integrate and automate business practices associated with the operations, production and distribution aspects of a company engaged in manufacturing products or services. Some of the well-known vendors of ERP systems are SAP AG, Oracle Applications, Microsoft Dynamics, SSA Global Technologies, QAD and Exact Software. Founded in 1972, SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. SAP is an acronym for Systems, Applications And Products in Data Processing. It is the largest ERP solution software provider in terms of revenue. SAP products focus on ERP systems. Its main product is SAP R/3. R stands for real-time data processing, and the number 3 relates to the three-tier application architecture of its database, application server and client. There are over 91,500 SAP installations at more than 28,000 companies. Over 12 million people in more than 120 countries use SAP prod...