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In this small publication we would like to walk you throughmultinational firm corporate ERP selection and implementation phases, where weare using real case studies from our international ERP consulting practice: 1. CorporateERP in US Headquarters. Here you oftenhave little room for change, as your organization might already invested few oreven many years ago to mid-size accounting application and everyone is happywith this historical choice. In ourexample, we assume that your corporate ERP is Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerlyknown as Great Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise. Lets assume that Great Plains is in production and you have solidnumber of FRx financial statements to cover Financial and Managerial Accountingversions of Balance Sheet, P&L, Statement of Cash Flow with theirconsolidated versions 2. Manufacturingfacility overseas. Lets assume that youacquired firm in Brazil, Sao Paulo area, were you now need to implement localizedaccounting application. First idea isprobably the following we already purchased Dynamics GP licenses, why dontwe just add new company in our current Great Plains installation and have ourBrazilian operations be accounted there? Well, theoretically you can do that, however, there are some points toconsider. First, you should be aware ifyour selected ERP is translated to Brazilian Portuguese, and second is yourERP compliant to Brazilian legislation? If you make a research, calling Microsoft Dynamics subdivision, you willget the answers No. Instead Microsoftwould probably recommend you to deploy Dynamics AX, formerly known as Axapta,or as back up alternative Dynamics NAV Navision. Great Plains Dynamics GP is neithertranslated to Portuguese nor localized for Brazil 3. DynamicsAX Axapta for Brazil. Yes, this is whatyou should consider first. AX isespecially strong in process manufacturing, such as Brazilian foodindustry. Axapta is not for tinybusiness, you should request local AX presentation to see if you can affordAxapta 4. SAPBusiness One for Brazilian subsidiary. This route should be taken if your Brazilian plant is mid-size orsmall. SAP B1 is based in Microsoft SQLServer and internationalized, including Brazil, translated into Portuguese andcompliant to Brazilian tax code 5. EastEurope. Here you have to choose between DynamicsGP AX, Dynamics GP NAV and SAP Business One all these are localized andavailable in most of East European countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine,Latvia, Lithuania, Czech, Romania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia,Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovakia. 6. Asia. If you have manufacturing facility in China,please consider AX or SB1, if you have manufacturing plant in Philippines,Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, you may try Dynamics GP, AX,NAV or SAP Business One. Turkey,Armenia, Georgia think about AX
Corporate,ERP,for,Multinationa