Sap Business One Customization Or How Do We Modify User Interface Without Programming By: Andrew Karasev | - Customizability is one of the factors for ERP platform to be successful on the competitive software market. The history of adaptable software begins with reserved so-called user defined fields and simple interface to name them. Good example is old Great Plains Dynamics and its successor nowadays Microsoft Dynamics GP. This approach is pretty limited and if you remember old accounting packages it was normal scenario to invite programmers to have them create custom tables, provide user interfac ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Selection And Integration Projects Or Locating Technology Oriented Partner By: Andrew Karasev | - Small Business ERP selection process requires homework including candidates list, business processes mapping, vendor reputation and other steps and parameters. If you have doubts or not sure that you are on the same page with consulting firm sales folks then it is good idea to hold on and clarify the questions. Especially it is important when you are looking for custom integration and reporting in the phase two. Inexpensive or entry level systems should be tested on their openness to data fee ... Tags:SAP Business One, Data Transfer Workbench
Sap Business One And Dynamics Gp Or Which Erp To Choose? By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP acquired a while ago accounting application initially architected and programmed in Israel. Around 2005 SAP Business One had good market gain here in the United States with version 2005A. Great Plains Dynamics in its turn is older and it was introduced on Windows and Mac platforms in earlier 1990th as one of the pioneering applications completely in graphic user interface. Each system has its pros and contras and consulting to both communities of users we would like to share our impressio ... Tags:SAP Business One, Dynamics GP
Sap Business One Old Release Support Consulting Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - Accounting and ERP systems have their life cycle beginning from the introduction and then followed by market share gain, golden age and then retirement and phasing out. In the case of SAP B1 we see its market share gaining phase at this time of February of 2012. However there are customers here in the United States with versions no longer supported by SAP directly: 2007A and 2005A. There are also customers who are not current in annual enhancement program and who feel that they are sort of or ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Countryside Consulting By: Andrew Karasev | - When you are located somewhere far away from major business metros chances are high that your local consulting partner is overcharging you and has limited expertise especially in technologies. Isnt that the true statement that internet is available everywhere? If the answer is of course then we recommend you to think about remote support options. What is possible and what is not possible we would like to open these questions in this small publication. We are not pretending to wr ... Tags:SAP Business One, Consolidated Financial Reporting
Sap Business One Brazilian Localization Notes: Sped, Ncm And Icms By: Andrew Karasev | - Multinational companies are opening their branches in Brazil and in this small publication the goal is to give you initial idea on ERP system selection and implementation. First of all you should understand the general picture in Brazil. The country has Federal, State and municipal taxes as well as Fiscal Chart of Accounts. The country is also in transition to adopt electronic filing on the level of Accounts Receivable and Payable one per month as well as on the level of General Ledger once p ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Chicago Supporting Old Versions 2007a And 2005a By: Andrew Karasev | - Technically support is not really challenging for consulting firm. However there are nuances as might be close to impossible to transfer application server (with license server) from one computer to another. Software license key is coded against MAC of the motherboard. So try keeping your old server in luxury conditions and if by whatever reason peripheral devices fail (hard drives or RAID, Ethernet card or RAM) then try to keep motherboard and order replacement to failed component
Sap Business One Legacy Version And How To Get Support By: Andrew Karasev | - When you are running your accounting application on the old version you might feel that consulting firms are reluctant in dealing with you. This is understandable as consulting folks are trying to get new software licenses or product sales and make reasonable money on initial implementation hours. Plus they have to keep hiring certified consultants and new hires are probably trained in current version. However you should accommodate yourself to the idea that the luxury to have consultant next ... Tags:SAP Business One, ERP Recovery
Sap Business One 2007a And 2005a Old Version Tech Support Atlanta Chicago And Nationwide By: Andrew Karasev | - It might be a situation when you feel that reseller across the street being so nice in initial sales cycle and implementation phase doesnt want to provide service anymore. And the reason is simple as you decided not to pay for annual enhancement contract with SAP
Is it the end of the story for you? Probably not as these people are looking to the future and pursue new software sales but there are firms helping SAP B1 customers on the secondary market
Sap Business One Old Version Support Or What To Do If You Are On 2005 Or 2007 Releases By: Andrew Karasev | - There are so-called orphan customers or in other words who are without support. Typical reason is decision to stop paying annual maintenance plan somewhere in the past. If you do not have active annual contract then your original consulting firm is not interested in dealing with you including technical support. Situation is not ideal but it is not the end of the world for you. Lets talk about what could be done and how you can be back on track. Lets take a look at details:
Sap Business One As Erp Option When Multinational Corporation Is Expanding To Brazil By: Andrew Karasev | - Multinational Corporation typically has several objectives to ERP selection for its foreign subsidiary. We would like to talk about the three which as statistically most important based on our clientele. For CEO and Controller in USA based headquarters these are Financial and Operational Control via ERP, Consolidated Financial Reporting and Compliance to foreign country tax code. For the controller in Brazil the priority might be listed in reverse order and they should be respected as he is r ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
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Sap Business One Sales Order Batch Style Negotiation Via Web Interface By: Andrew Karasev | - Have you seen the scenario where you do not want to commit sales order while price negotiation continues. How about the creation new sales order from the historical one with respect to the price tag? If you are franchisor and running franchisees network then you might like the idea to grant your franchisee sales reps access to their orders but restrict them from seeing what is going on with another franchisee. Similar requirements could be attributed to dealerships, grocery or oriental foods ... Tags:SAP Business One, Web User Interface
Sap Business One Web Sales Order Management And Inventory And Business Partner Inquiries By: Andrew Karasev | - If you are opening your ERP system in both: intranet and extranet scenarios then the option to acquire named user license is not feasible. You would rather prefer thin client or in other words web interface. Lets review the following logic. Your sales person including sales rep working for one of your franchises or dealerships needs to have some time and for negotiation related to price, quantity available for shipping and historical price and items ordered. In out-of-the-box Business One ... Tags:SAP Business One, Web User Interface
Sap Business One Multicurrency And Consolidated Financial Statements By: Andrew Karasev | - If you are in essence multinational company with branches in foreign countries then consolidated Balance Sheet or Statement of Profit and Loss are important. Consolidated reporting could be achieved by various methods including simple export to Excel via queries from branches. There are ISV supported instruments to do the job. In our opinion the method of General Ledger entries consolidation in specially created company should be also considered as it naturally resolves such possible road blo ... Tags:SAP Business One, Consolidated Financial Reporting
Sap Business One Consolidated Profit And Loss Statement How To Build By: Andrew Karasev | - Business One is good solution when you are midmarket organization with attributes of multinational corporation, such as branches in foreign countries and headquarters and research facility in the United States. SAP B1 is popular in international business scenarios as it is localized in such popular regional powers as China, Brazil and Russian Federation. There are known cases studies when companies with non-SAP Corporate ERP applications launched Business One for their branches in Brazil and l ... Tags:SAP Business One, Consolidated Financial Reporting
Sap Business One Consolidate Financial Reporting By: Andrew Karasev | - If you were controller in the companies where accounting was implemented on Great Plains Dynamics, Navision or maybe Epicor then probably FRx was doing perfect consolidate P&L statement report via reporting tree. And now you are hired to the midmarket multinational company where headquarters and overseas subsidiaries are implemented on SAP B1 platform installed on the same MS SQL Server. FRx or Microsoft Management Reporter is not available for SAP BO. Accounting personnel here are exporting ... Tags:SAP Business One, Consolidated Financial Reporting
Sap Business One As Erp Option For Multinational Company Opening Facility In Brazil By: Andrew Karasev | - Each country and especially such regional power as Brazil has its own regulations and tax code. In smaller countries business practice could be regulated by international GAAP. In large country even if GAAP compliance is declared you may expect unique requirements in invoice numbering, electronic filing and reporting. ERP application has to adopt local requirement in order to be ready for being implemented. There is special term Localized ERP. You might have strong relation with consu ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Customization As The Way To Get Control Over The Source Code By: Andrew Karasev | - When you are running IT department in midsize company you are probably thinking strategically about technologies and the way to have them implemented efficiently with future upgrade perspectives. In this small publication we would like to review advantages and risks associated with custom business processes programming and implementation. We will compare ISV channel add-ons and doing programming in-house referencing Software Development Kit. We do not pretend to be technical and this is not a ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Or How To Integrate Ecommerce Shopping Cart By: Andrew Karasev | - First of all in order to answer on the question you need to understand your ecommerce nature and technology behind. SAP B1 is popular small business accounting platform among small and midsize ecommerce retailers. We have seen numerous successful and not successful integration cases and we would like to share with you our experience. This publication is not intended as technical whitepaper it is rather for managerial personnel and decision makers. Web portals are often created prior to ERP a ... Tags:SAP Business One, Ecommerce Integration
Sap Business One International Projects By: Andrew Karasev | - If you were able to find this publication through internet search then you are probably surprised by discovering that accounting system that you might be using in the United States is not localized in the country where your organization opened production facility. Good example would be Microsoft Dynamics GP formerly known as Great Plains is not available in such regions as China, Brazil or Russia. Lets review internationalized ERP system in general and talk about SAP B1 and its worldwide av ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Or When Custom Programming Might Be Recommended By: Andrew Karasev | - Customizations in general should be avoided and in ERP selection cycle you should find the solution backed by established software vendor which fits to eighty percent or more of your business requirements. If you heard good words from other business owners who are in different industries these are not a final decision making factors. If you are considering yourself as innovative entrepreneur then your company should use your business secrets as competitive advantages. Secrets are something th ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One As A Candidate On Your Erp Selection List By: Andrew Karasev | - If you are small business with reasonably complex processes possible including manufacturing or maybe better say assembly on order, picking and packing, long sales cycle with personal relation establishing then you should place SAP B1 on your list of ERP candidates. In general it is recommended to compile requirements document with checklists. Also try to think about the reputation of the software vendor as well as proposed consulting firm. Consider requesting executive and technical presenta ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Integration Programming In Chicago Suburbs Illinois By: Andrew Karasev | - This small business ERP application is a good fit for Chicagoland based distribution and small manufacturing companies. Assembly functionality as well as inventory picking and packing are something that is difficult to get in competing accounting packages without third party add-ons or extra cost. This application has also reasonably priced add-ons turning it into POS terminal as well as barcoding or RFID based Warehouse Management System. We would also like to mention its availability intern ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Customization Or Modern Erp Interoperability Concept By: Andrew Karasev | - In XX century especially in the era of supercomputers accounting application was something running it its own computing case and open to users via monitors, keyboards and printers. Then we see the appearance of such concepts as EDI, Barcoding, RFID and plus accounting application was renamed into ERP with Sales, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Manufacturing and Human Resource functionalities. Now think about such sales channel as ecommerce portal where shopping cart and credit card payment are ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Integration With Custom Ecommerce Portal By: Andrew Karasev | - Small Ecommerce merchants often use popular shopping cart platforms such as Magento where integration is available. However in B2B scenarios larger organizations might prefer in-house software development and support. And this is understandable as in B2B ecommerce scenario you like to be unique and your customers should feel the quality or your services versus Google search and walk-in in the case of small merchants on Ebay. First of all we would like to say that if you are large organization ... Tags:SAP Business One, Data Transfer Workbench, Ecommerce SDK
Sap Business One Or Crossing The Border And Building Global Erp System By: Andrew Karasev | - With globalization progress even midsize firm might become acting as multinational company with such attributes as subsidiary overseas in Asia or Europe or in South America. Typical situation in the foreign country is when local legislation doesnt allow you to open branch and just sell through it. Instead it is common to open local company with full or major ownership by your parent company here in the United States or Canada or wherever it is registered. With complex legal structure such ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One International Consulting Notes And Recommendation By: Andrew Karasev | - Companies expanding internationally and opening subsidiaries in South America, China, Europe or Russian regions need to form the strategy in international ERP. There are common mistakes that are probably not show stoppers but they might cause unnecessary overhead and gaps in control. We would like to share our experience selling and implementing this mid-market accounting package in Brazil and Russian Federation. In the past we had consulting practice in Moscow, Sao Paulo and Prague and we we ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
International Erp Selection Sap Business One And Microsoft Dynamics By: Andrew Karasev | - When your company begins international expansion this is probably good news as it signals about growth and success. At the same time you have to learn such international business lessons as selecting and implementing accounting software which is compliant to foreign country tax code and has user interface in foreign language. By why dont we just deploy the same software as we have here in the headquarters? Well try to answer this and related questions in this small publication. We will ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One As Global Worldwide Erp Solution By: Andrew Karasev | - With globalization we now see the pattern when compact and even reasonably small company establishes production and distribution channels worldwide and by doing so it obtains legitimate attributes of the multinational corporation. In order to sell or produce in Asia or South America, company has to open subsidiaries in these regions. Multinational company historically was associated with high end Corporate ERP solution such as Oracle Financials, Axapta or SAP R3. However if the number of AR, ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Integration Via Sdk Programming Importing Timesheets From Microsoft Crm By: Andrew Karasev | - Combination of Microsoft CRM with SAP B1 is pretty unusual, however consulting companies often offer both products and we have seen customers where this tandem was implemented. And we had it deployed several years ago in our own consulting practice for internal timesheet submission and automatic transfer to accounting system. Lets begin with workflow description and go down to code. Please note that this code is presented here just to feel the level of programming complexity or simplicity ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Technical Support Or Getting Issues Resolved By: Andrew Karasev | - Each SAP B1 customer should have assigned consulting firm and the services are provided through that organization. If you are reading these lines chances are high that you are either not aware who these people are or simply not happy with their service quality or response time. Business One is reasonably stable and immune to software bugs however if you have customizations, complex reporting or integration programmed in Software Development Kit then programmers who did the job might introduce ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Southwest Michigan And Chicago Area And Second Opinion By: Andrew Karasev | - The area is good if not to say perfect for nationwide distribution businesses with assembly on order manufacturing. It is also fair to say that this ERP application is very friendly to small and midsize multinational companies or businesses with small subsidiaries overseas and in Americas. In this small publication we would like to discuss Business One features which could be deployed in typical local area businesses. Lets begin with assembly on order:
Sap Business One Moscow Region Service To Multinational Corporations By: Andrew Karasev | - ERP model for the multinationals often trends toward several integrated ERP platforms. Good idea to have strategic consulting partner in the United States where your headquarters is with implementation coordination functions when you are selecting and implementing accounting systems in your overseas offices including Russian Federation.
Consulting firm has to be present in key regions and be familiar with local business culture and tax code and at the same time its consulting rates ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Advises In Multinational Erp Implementation And Deployment By: Andrew Karasev | - Multinational company has to do its homework in selecting accounting package for its overseas office. Probably the first question is about localization of the product in the foreign country. Good example is expansion to Brazil and having Microsoft Dynamics GP deployed in the headquarters. GP is not offered in Brazil and it is not localized there. We have seen numerous requests about rolling out Great Plains for the office in Sao Paulo by translating several forms into Portuguese. Translatio ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One As Russian Erp For Multinational Corporation By: Andrew Karasev | - If you are local business in Moscow then your accounting application might be 1C. However if you are part of the multinational company then 1C might be not too transparent for internal audit and not too friendly for consolidated financial reporting. At this time of December 2011 there might be reasonable feeling of uncertainty as president elections should happen in earlier March of 2012. But we do believe that whoever wins the rally Putin or Prokhorov the result will be in pacifying concerns ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Customization How To Find Developer And Second Opinion By: Andrew Karasev | - If you are reading this publication we assume that you got issues with the quality of specification and programming work in SAP B1 Software Development Kit and possibly in custom table and field setup in user interface as preparation to coding. There might be numerous reasons and we will try to review them and how to find the way out of crisis. This is not technical paper as it is rather oriented to decision makers. Lets begin:
Sap Business One Implementation In Russian Regions When You Are Multinational Corporation By: Andrew Karasev | - When you have office in Moscow or St Petersburg there might be little or no challenge at all to find local consulting firm to do the job. Our goal in this publication is to suggest the strategy for multinational corporation acquiring mining or production facility in one of the Russian regions such as Siberia or Far East. Lets begin with management level questions such as how to retain control over accounting, financial reporting, purchasing and sales processes? One of the reasons why ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Customization Projects Chicago, Atlanta And Sao Paulo Brazil By: Andrew Karasev | - It is common scenario where you are coming through sales cycle, acquiring software licenses and implement ERP system through one consulting organization and then when you are entering in phase two with custom programming requirements then you are selecting somebody who is more technology consulting oriented. Sometimes when you are dealing with larger nationwide reseller it is possible to do both phases through them but the hourly rates might be higher. In this small publication we would like t ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
After successful launch of Alba Spectrum which is primarily specializing in Microsoft Dynamics GP product line, Andrew Karasev founding partner is now building several ERP consulting lines in newly created company Faru Corporation
Sap Business One Small Business Erp For Multinational Corporation By: Andrew Karasev | - It might be surprising news that large chunk of popular small business accounting packages are sold exclusively regionally within national borders of large countries. SAP B1 is exception and it is available internationally with robust integration technology to SAP in the headquarters. It is good option for worldwide expansion which allows you to retain financial, accounting and internal audit control over your overseas branches. We have seen scenarios where Business One was deployed and integ ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Integration In Edi Scenarios Via Data Transfer Workbench By: Andrew Karasev | - There is popular opinion that Data Transfer Workbench is sort of great tool for initial data migration but when you need ongoing import then you should probably look at SDK programming or ISV tools such as iBolt. We would like to give DTW some credits and in general describe the way of building quasi real time integration. Such great tools as iBolt are respected but Business One is often implemented in small organizations where they cannot afford additional software licenses and technical cons ... Tags:SAP Business One, Data Transfer Workbench
Sap Business One Multinational Corporation Accounting System Implementation Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - Modern enterprises often seek the advantages of going internationally and opening facilities in such regions as Brazil, China or Russia. The reasons might be various including cheaper labor cost but often also conquering foreign market and even oil drilling and mining and other activities related to mineral resources. However crossing USA border and opening production plant overseas often leads you to decision making about ERP application for your international subsidiary. Lets assume that ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Customizability And Openness For Integration By: Andrew Karasev | - Creating user defined tables and adding fields to existing table directly in user interface are definite pluses. In our case we are consulting Accounting systems implementation, modification, integration and reporting and we would like to give us our opinion on the old way of having your ERP customized in comparison to Business One. In old good days having your accounting system tailored was typically associated with programming in proprietary language with following beta testing and quality a ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Ongoing Import Via Data Transfer Workbench By: Andrew Karasev | - In initial implementation Data Transfer Workbench is often helping you in data migration from legacy application to SAP B1. Data conversion typically has three steps. The first step is date export from your old accounting either via direct ODBC connection or via printing reports into text file. Second step is data cleansing. Finally you are preparing your data in CSV templates usually in Excel and trigger data migration in DTW. In ideal world you are done at this point however in reality yo ... Tags:SAP Business One, Data Transfer Workbench
Customizing Sap Business One And Few Words About Erp Flexibility By: Andrew Karasev | - ERP vendors are competing in the area of unique business processes where customization is required. The systems architected in previous generation leveraged custom software development in proprietary scripting languages. Good example was Great Plains Dynamics where special programming shell was created and its name is GP Dexterity. New architecture is more flexible and this is where SAP B1 is with its modification concept. It is probably not realistic to design the way to program custom logi ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Interconnection With External Application Or Database By: Andrew Karasev | - By one reason or another there is opinion in consulting community that when you need ongoing data move to SAP B1 from external database then you have to appeal to third party tools such as iBolt for example. We would like to review how one-way integration could be done with native tool Data Transfer Workbench and then two way integration with Software Development Kit programming. There is no need to pay to ISV partners in the case of DTW deployment however you should know the method of connect ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Customization And Reporting In Chicagoland By: Andrew Karasev | - ERP applications have their own life cycles and at this time SAP B1 is in expansion mode here in Northern Illinois as well as in the United States. At this point we assume that you have already acquired and implemented Business One and thinking about second phase with custom integration or sophisticated Crystal Report design. We would like to give you some background in technology and consulting firm selection recommendations. Before we begin we should let you know that there are third party ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
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The Thule 605 Ascent 1700 Rooftop Cargo Box - A Review By: Shelby Pinoti | - The Thule 605 Ascent 1700 Rooftop Cargo Box is great for transporting just about all types of cargo, particularly holiday cargo and the gear you might require for day trips.
Looks-wise, this rooftop box is styled so that it will go with the design of most present day vehicles and it does, although it clearly seems a lot more suitable on a bigger vehicle.
