| localized Portuguese version | | | | into its family of ERP systems. SAP BO has |
| This small article is dedicated to SAP and its | | | | transaction consolidation module. Just to give you |
| mid-market and small-to-midmarket MRP application | | | | some excurse — you can use two mechanisms |
| — SAP Business One. SAP BO in Brazil is | | | | to get cross companies consolidated reporting |
| available in March 2006 | | | | — using data puling (and original currency |
| In previous short articles we have been discussing the | | | | historical exchange rate multiplication) mechanism |
| options for international company (branches of | | | | — typical example would be FRx reporting for |
| multinationals with headquarters in US, UK, Australia, | | | | Great Plains, Solomon and other ERPs. Second and |
| Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain) to implement so-called | | | | more reliable way is — transaction consolidation |
| localized MRP in Brazil. We covered Microsoft | | | | — when you physically move transactions |
| Dynamics NAV, AX, CRM. This small article is | | | | (adjusted for the reporting currency) to the image of |
| dedicated to SAP and its mid-market and | | | | your subsidiary and then run report over your |
| small-to-midmarket MRP application — SAP | | | | branches databases. Transactional consolidation |
| Business One. SAP BO in Brazil is available in March | | | | makes SAP Business One attractive ERP option for |
| 2006. | | | | Spoke-and-Hub ERP integration model, when |
| - Local taxes and regulations. CNAE, CPF, IE, IEST, IM | | | | subsidiaries use SAP BO and consolidate transactions |
| — localization supports these rules and taxes | | | | to the corporate ERP — mySAP or SAP R/3 |
| - Multilanguage. SAP BO has advanced language | | | | - Multicurrency. It is supported in all modules (just in |
| support in comparison to other localized ERPs: Oracle | | | | case if you have experience working with |
| E-Business Suite, Navision, Axapta, JDEdwards | | | | multicurrency, available for the GL only). |
| — in SAP Business One you can switch | | | | - Customizations. SAP Business One SDK enables |
| language (from Portuguese to English for example) in | | | | you to tune screens as needed, if you think that |
| the same user session for the same company. | | | | end-user intuitive modification is not sufficient. If you |
| Multilanguage support in our opinion enables tight control | | | | need to deploy local programmers — they |
| to financial officers in headquarters for their Brazilian or | | | | should be experienced in COM objects programming. |
| any other overseas subsidiary. | | | | - Competition. |
| - Transactional consolidation. SAP integrates SAP BO | | | | |